Visionary now offering secure data destruction services

VISIONARY COMPUTER OFFERING SECURE DATA DESTRUCTION

Small-town technology company offering world-class secure destruction of data, locally.

LAKEVILLE – February 20th, 2023 – Visionary Computer today announced that is has began offering hard drive degaussing services to ensure absolute and secure destruction of data. “I’ve spent my entire professional career trying to save customer’s data, so this was an ironic investment for me.” said David Maffucci, owner of Visionary Computer. “My focus on data protection also helped me realize that when the time comes to safely and securely remove data from a device, extra measures had to be taken.”

Erasing or formatting a hard drive does not securely remove the data. In many cases, inexpensive commercially available software tools can unerase data quickly and easily. Even physically destroying a hard drive does not ensure the data is inaccessible. Maffucci notes several instances where he has used professional data recovery companies to restore data from damaged drives. “After much research and study I became aware that the only way to completely destroy data was to use a high power degausser.” Maffucci went on to say that the reason degaussing is so uncommon is cost. The purchase price of a sufficiently powerful device is excessive and services where you send the drive often have chain of custody issues which prevent them from being viable solutions or high per-drive costs.

“The only way we can monetize this is if we grow our services far beyond our existing Apple customer base, thankfully I believe this service will be a welcome addition to many banks, hospitals, doctors, lawyers, accountants, and anyone who needs secure data destruction at incredibly low prices.” said Maffucci. Visionary Computer has been offering computer recycling for a fee and they are not charging anything extra to have the drive degaussed as part of their recycle services. The new service they are offering is for drive only destruction. For a single 2.5 or 3.5 inch hard drive degaussed, the price is just $25 and it’s platform agnostic, Mac, PC, Unix, anything. Quantity discounts are available if customers have large quantities of drives. Drive destruction certificates are available as an optional and additional expense.

Drive degaussing is a method of permanently, securely deleting data using a powerful magnetic pulse in excess of 1.0 Tesla (10,000 Gauss) to alter the magnetic properties of the drive media. It breaks the magnetic bonds that keep data on the drive. Once a drive has been degaussed with sufficient power, the data is irrevocably destroyed and recovery is impossible at any price.

Visionary Computer in Lakeville is Connecticut’s only Apple Premier Partner. They sell, service, and support Apple technology products and they have a showroom located at 29 Bissell Street in Lakeville Connecticut where customers can see and interact with Apple’s latest offerings. Their office is open for business Monday through Friday from 9am to 5pm and Saturday from 10am to 4pm. Visionary Computer has been Apple Authorized for sales and service for more than 28 years.

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