When hard drives require replacement, Symantec understands that you would prefer to keep these hard drives in-house and maintain control over the disposal of the information they contain. Symantec Non-Returnable Disk Option for Symantec Appliance products offers an option that enables the customers to keep failed hard drives that contain highly sensitive data, rather than return the drives to Symantec. Purchase of the hard drive retention option from Symantec requires a valid appliance support contract and covers all hard drives on appliances for the annual term of the contract. Advances in high-capacity magnetic disk drives have been among the key factors driving corporate information management strategy. High-volume, commercial grade disk drives are common in most enterprise appliances and it has been estimated that over 90% of all information produced was stored on magnetic media, most of it being hard disk drives.1 In addition, government information privacy laws have made ensuring the security of confidential electronic data stored on hard disk drives a priority for many organizations. Symantec Non-Returnable Disk Option for Symantec Appliance products offers an option that enables customers to keep failed hard drives that contain highly sensitive data, rather than return the drives to Symantec. The hard drive retention option from Symantec covers all hard drives on appliances and is offered on an annual basis.