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#300633 23-Sep-2022 14:04

Hi.

Does anyone know of any cost-effective document and hard drive destruction services? (or would someone in Auckland allow me to put lots of paper through their commericial shredder in exchange for a nice bottle of something something?)

I have about 250 HDD's I'd like to make unusable and about 20 File master boxes full of A4 documents, and 15 recall sized boxes worth too.

I don't need a letter of destruction for the HDD's but if possible able to get a video of them being fed into a grinder or something similar....

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#2972169 23-Sep-2022 14:52

Set up a local school fundraiser with HDDs and sledge hammers. Gold coin donation for 1 minute of smashing fun! Don't forget the safety glasses 🤓

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#2972172 23-Sep-2022 15:13

Ive used these guys in Wairua Park (North Shore) to do hard drive shredding quite a few times - https://www.abilities.co.nz/services/certified-destruction/

He even let me throw a couple in the shredder myself for a laugh and let me 'view' the rest so I knew they were destroyed.

He does pricing on bulk shredding and the whole organisation is a great cause, employing New Zealanders with developmental and physical disabilities.

Maybe give them a call to see if they do document destruction as well.

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#2972269 23-Sep-2022 18:17

https://www.kmart.co.nz/product/cross-cut-shredder-42735915/

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#2972291 23-Sep-2022 19:05

At a maximum of 5 sheets at a time it will take ages to shred that quantity of pages.

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#2972297 23-Sep-2022 19:41

networkn:

I don't need a letter of destruction for the HDD's but if possible able to get a video of them being fed into a grinder or something similar....

Grab the 250 hard drives, a smartphone and off to the hydraulic scrap press at the car junkyard. Is done within 10 minutes.

(But that's not the real way, the electronics would have to be separated from the metal beforehand. What @dt: said sounds better to me)

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#2972314 23-Sep-2022 21:14

k1w1k1d:

At a maximum of 5 sheets at a time it will take ages to shred that quantity of pages.

I mean, is there an urgent deadline? It'll be cost effective. Sit down with some beers, a bong and your shredding gear and make an evening of it. Repeat until finished.

For the hard drives, there's this: