When contacting an electronic recycling provider, you must first decide what to do with the storage devices that have reached their end of life stage. You can either tell the service providers to simply erase the data from the devices or destroy the hardware as well.
The storage devices contain sensitive information of the companies which should not get into the wrong hands. In the data erasing process, the data completely gets erased from the device when it passes through multiple processes. In hardware destruction, the storage devices are shredded into pieces and the scrap generated is used as raw material for several manufacturing processes.
If only the data gets erased, then the storage device can be re-used by anyone else. It is the device owners’ choice of what they want to do with the old storage devices.
If you simply erase the data at your end, there are still traces of the data left on the device that can be retrieved by the hackers. The electronic recycling providers when treating the device through several processes, no data-trace is left on the device.
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