Xperien launched its new mobile hard drive shredding truck that can degaus and destroy hard drives in seconds – the only truck of its kind in SA with this technology.

The truck provides on-site degaussing and destruction that’s not only safe and secure, but also fully PoPI compliant.

It offers mobile data destruction services that include the physical shredding of 300 hard drives, 500 data tapes, USB sticks and up to 400 mobile phones every hour.

The mobile facility also offers the digital shredding of hard drives, solid state drives and data tapes and also the degaussing of HDD and tapes.

The main advantage this truck brings to data security is that it eliminates the need to provide a “chain of custody” for the client data because the truck comes to the clients premises.

Hard drive made of aluminium, steel and other metal alloys require huge amount to shred into tiny pieces and would normally happen in industrial factory.

The process is shown in the photos below.

For more information, visit the Xperien website.


Hard drives arrive in a sealed, steel container


The mobile hard drive shredder


The serial number of the batch is shown to the camera for security purposes


The entire process is recorded for the client, providing additional security


 The hard drive is fed into the machine


Giant crushing wheels shred the hard drive in just seconds


Shards of the hard drive fall into a basin below


A generator powers the mobile hardware shredder on the truck (but it can also be plugged into a three-phase power source)