Hi,

I currently own a server at The Planet. Unfortunately, due to various reasons, I will be ending my service here within the next couple of months.

I am interested to know what procedures The Planet takes towards ensuring data cannot be retrieved by subsequent users of the system and it's parts via data retrieval software etc.

A lot of personal and confidential information is stored on my server, and I'm sure I am not speaking alone when I say this.

I am assuming The Planet does not dispose of HDD's after a customer ends their service here.

Should I do anything myself to securely erase data before I shut down the server? Anyone else thought about this?

Thanks in advance,
Allan_

Our AP system destroys the data at the beginning stages of an order when it gets assigned. While this is a fairly secure process, not all details I can disclose, I'd never discourage you to take the extra measures to destroy any data. Beyond pulverization or degaussing, there are very little techniques will guarantee 100%.

I would use an application to destory any data on any additional drives then pay to have the AP take place before I discontinued use of the primary drive.
(It will/should get run again by TP regardless when the next customer takes the server).

I am not sure if AP takes care of secondary drives (I had an issue with a secondary drive in a new server a few years back).
Like Tomy said, software cannot fully destroy data but anything can help get it to that point.