Once a hard drive has been shredded, it won't be able to be operated again, guaranteeing secure destruction of the data.
It can be hard to imagine the volume of data and information that can be stored within a hard drive. This table shows the average number of documents potentially being stored per gigabyte of data.
| Document Type | Average Pages Per Gigabyte | Pages Stored On 400 Gigabyte HD |
| Word | 64,000 | 25,600,000 |
| Excel | 165,000 | 66,000,000 |
| Powerpoint | 17,000 | 6,800,000 |
| 100,00 | 40,000,000 |
The volume seen here outlines the importance of hard drive security.
