Ameri-Shred releases new electronic media shredders

Ameri-Shred, Alpena, Michigan, has added 1.5-horsepower versions to its Series 1 HDD-SSD shredders.

The AMS-150-SSD and AMS-150HD-SSD are available in 120-volt or any three-phase voltage. Users can choose between a single shred width or a dual-cutting chamber that will shred rotary drives on one side and solid state drives (SSDs) on the other, the company says.

The shredders are designed to shred SSDs, cellphones, memory cards, circuit boards and thumb drives to 3/8-inch-wide particles. This small shred size is required to destroy all the memory chips that SSDs use to store data, Ameri-Shred says.

Each chamber has its own infeed slot, discharge bin and shred width, according to the company’s website.

Ameri-Shred says these shredders are designed so that only one cutting chamber can be used at a time and only for its intended e-scrap. Shredding SSDs on the rotary drive side would not ensure complete data destruction, while shredding rotary hard drives on the SSD side likely would damage the cutters.

The company’s Series 1 solid state drive shredders can be installed as stationary machines or can be placed in trucks for mobile hard drive shredding.