In today’s age of identity theft rings and information security, what is the safest way to destroy files and data that you put on CD’s and DVD’s? rubbing sand paper on the bottom? Taking a hammer to them? Just throwing them away? Paint?

I looked into a lot of different ways of safeguarding my information that I no longer needed and most importantly, didn’t want any one else to have.

There was numerous choices to all levels of destruction and after reviewing some and actually purchasing 3 different types the best by far is the Alera Technologies CD/DVD Shredder stock number 240114. This bad boy puts about a thousand tiny pin pricks into the disc making it completely unreadable!

The unit can destroy one disc at a time but does so in less than 2 seconds in a fully automated process. Slip the disc in the front and it comes out the back all pinned!

I give this a 5 out of 5 for ease of use, low cost, functionality, safe