Data Terminators'  hard drive shredder. The shredder is located in a van together with a generator - fully self contained.

 

The shredder is fed hard drives such as these

   

...and shreds them into little pieces like this:-

 

The image below illustrates the results when a single hard drive is shredded.
To give one a better idea of the size of the pieces that can usually be expected after
shredding a single hard drive click here .

The speed of shredding depends on the make of hard drive.
IBM and Seagate drives take just under 3minutes per drive (20-25 per hour).  
Maxtor and W/Digital take about 2 minutes per drive (30 per hour).

 

TAPES...........we also shred data cartridges

Examples of the type* of tapes we shred are:-

DLT Tape IV Cartridges

Super DLT tapes

ULTRIUM TAPE Cartridges

4mm Digital Data Storage Tape  mini cartridge  81mm x 60mm x 14m

Sony SDX2-50C data tapes  95mm x 62mm x 15mm

3M DC600A data cartridge tapes  151mm x 101mm x 17mm

HP C7972A 400GB tapes  105mm x 100mm x 21mm

We can usually shred  one standard DLT tape in approximately 60seconds
*Our machinery has a  size restriction which may prevent certain types of large tapes from being acceptable. 
The thickest we can accept is 25mm and widest is 110mm.
Obviously the cassette can be rotated and one side can be longer than 110mm
but the other side cannot be wider than 110mm.
 
If you wish, we can transport the destroyed "chaff"  to a licensed waste facility where the pieces are ground up even further and separated into their constituent elements. The metals are then sent to a metal refinery for melting into ingots.

DATA TERMINATORS .......... BYTES to BITS

Contact Information

Business Hours
Monday - Saturday 10am - 6pm
Telephone
01223 305 007
Fax
01223 305 008
Postal address
Data Terminators, 4 Mill Road, Cambridge, CB1 2AD, England, UK
Electronic mail
General Information: info@data-terminators.co.uk