{"id":7251,"date":"2020-07-21T11:30:58","date_gmt":"2020-07-21T15:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.itadsummit.com\/?page_id=7251"},"modified":"2020-07-21T11:30:58","modified_gmt":"2020-07-21T15:30:58","slug":"itad-blog-seven-important-factors-about-data-erasure","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.itadsummit.com\/index.php\/itad-blog-seven-important-factors-about-data-erasure\/","title":{"rendered":"ITAD Blog: Seven Important Factors about Data Erasure"},"content":{"rendered":"

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ITAD Blog<\/h1>\n

SEVEN IMPORTANT FACTORS ABOUT DATA ERASURE<\/h3>\n\t

There\u2019s a lot of misinformation and misunderstanding about \u201cwiping,\u201d \u201csanitizing,\u201d or \u201cdestroying data\u201d on hard drives found in retired IT assets before selling those assets on the secondary market.<\/p>\n

If you don\u2019t want to inadvertently hand over your company\u2019s data or employee\u2019s PII to competitors or criminals, here are seven important things to know about making the data on your hard drives permanently irretrievable.<\/p>\n

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  1. Reformatting a hard drive on a desktop or laptop computer doesn\u2019t actually erase any data, it simply removes your ability to see and access it by clearing the File Allocation Table (FAT<\/a>).<\/li>\n
  2. You can\u2019t actually erase data once it\u2019s stored on a hard drive if you want to keep that drive in working condition, all you can do is overwrite it with other data.<\/li>\n
  3. Hard Disk Drives (HDD<\/a>) can have their data erased by ruining the magnetic fields of their disks in a process known as\u00a0degaussing<\/a>, but the drive won\u2019t be able to store data after being degaussed.<\/li>\n
  4. Solid State Drives (SSD<\/a>) do not use magnetic platters so they cannot be degaussed. They can only be overwritten like HDDs or physically destroyed in a shredding process similar to how paper documents are destroyed.<\/li>\n
  5. Data overwriting techniques:<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n