Aurora Commercial Grade 200-Sheet Auto Feed High Security Micro-Cut Paper Shredder/ 60 Minutes/Security Level P-5

This is, hands down, the best shredder I've ever owned. First, the auto-feed is a must. If you have stacks of 8.5x11 paper that needs shredding, this is your product. I've had Fellows for years that I used to hand feed paper into, which was great at the time but now, I need the auto-feed. I decided to get rid of my file cabinets and tons of paper, buy a high speed scanner (Epson RR-600W) and make all my files electronic. It was working out great until I realized that I have hours and hours of shedding to do. I recently tried an HP shredder with auto-feed and that was a disaster. The paper kept getting caught on a ledge where the paper feeds in and it would stop barely into a stack. So I looked for something that wouldn't get caught on anything (didn't care if it was P4 or P5 cross-cut) and I saw this one. It was a little more than I wanted to spend, but instead of calling out a shredding truck or taking bags and bags of paper to a place that may or may not shred my confidential docs, I spent the money and I'm really happy that I did. I can put 200 pages in this machine and go about my business while it does all the work. I think it's about 8 - 9 minutes to shred a full stack (mainly because it is a P5 and the shreds are pretty tiny). You can also leave staples in the auto-shred because of the way the paper is pulled into the machine, which is the best thing about this shredder. The manual feed takes staples and odd shaped docs as well. This thing is fairly quiet for a shredder which makes me happy too. It's on casters so I can pull it in and out of the little cubby that I have it in. The paper bin is also has casters on the back to you can tilt and roll it over to wherever you want to empty it. Aside from my high speed scanner, this one of my favorite purchases ever. Dont waste your money on a top loader where the paper sits upright in a feeder, like a printer, just get one of these. Either size would be superior to any other shredder function in this price range. I’ve had it for 1 1/2 years now and I’ve still been feeding boxes and boxes of paper into it. It’s still going strong. I love this thing!!

This shredder is certainly an upgrade from what I have. The auto feeder is nice if you just have a small stack of regular sized paper you want to shred. The auto feeder doesn't accept anything other than normal page size and it's slow. It shreds one page at a time. But it does allow you to walk away and do other things. The manual feeder says it takes up to 10 sheets at once. I wouldn't recommend that. 5 or 6 at best. This machine doesn't seem to have the strongest motor and will go into overload protect quite easily. Clearing the jam is easy, just hit reverse and it will spit it out the top. The shredding is quite fine, does a really nice job there. And the bin is pretty good size which is good for not having to empty all the time but is bad in the fact that if it's full, its hard to empty into a trash bag without spilling. Overall, this is a good machine that will be good for someone who wants to use it in a home or light office environment. Im pleased with my purchase.

This is a great shredder, I call her Prima Donna. Prima Donna doesn't take staples, or folded paper or an accidental paperclip. My old shredder took staples and folded paper -- no problem. The key difference is that Prima Donna can take up to 200 sheets stacked inside and shred them while you walk away. I'd rather not spend the time feeding a shredder up to 20 sheets at a time. I don't love unpicking all the staples left on packets in my high school office, but instead I choose to lob off the stapled paper corners with the guillotine before setting my shredder. The paper shreds are super tiny, but secure. Gotta say I love walking away and having this just work.

This is my favorite printer in my career! It is fast, quiet, portable and safe. It might be a little bigger than normal but it does so much more than normal shredders!

Very disappointed in this very expensive shredder. You can only shred 200 pages at a time if every single page is pristine without any bend whatsoever. So basically, it can’t. Moreover, you cannot see when it is shredding paper inside. You can only hear - not see, if shredding. Plus you hear shredding noise even if no paper is actually shredding. So after a lot of “shredding noise” you can open the lid and find all your papers still there. In addition, this shredder is extremely heavy! All in all, I can’t use the shredder to shred the advertised 200 pages at once, and you can’t watch whether the shredding is actually happening. I am returning this very expensive dud.

Totally awesome! I had 20 years of files in my attic with account numbers and personally identifiable information that I did not want to just discard. This looks like the cheapest shredder that shreds into a bag. My wife and daughter thought I was nuts, but in two weeks, in my spare time, I filled 25 eight gallon bags with tiny pieces of paper. It should go through staples, but I removed them all anyway to spare the cutters. Just place up to 200 sheets in the auto feeder and walk away! Then change bags when it signals the bag is full. After all that, it still runs like new. I just junked my old shredder that I will never use again. The only thing I did not like is my recycling center refused to take the paper-it had to go into landfill.

I hate shredding. It's loud. It takes forever. And it requires constant attention. What a waste of time. When our old shredder gave up the ghost and I saw that it was possible to get shredders with automatic feed, my eyes lit up. But then they narrowed suspiciously. Because that sounds like the sort of thing that breaks easily. I looked at several models, and this is the one I settled on. It does a fantastic job of shredding. And the automatic feed works. I went through an eight-inch stack of paper in a few hours. That stack built up over the course of years because of how much we hate shredding at our house. It's been looming over us, growing slowly, a constant nagging reminder of unfinished projects. And now... it's just... gone. We are free! That's just about the strongest endorsement I can possibly give this shredder. Overall, the noise is quieter and lower pitched than the old shredder... not exactly pleasant, but much less grating. There is also a sensor to detect when the bin is full. Not realizing that the bin was full led to the death of the old shredder in the event now known as the Great Confetti Disaster of 2024. As far as drawbacks, there are only a couple. You can still feed pretty much anything manually, like a regular shredder. But the automatic feed is very fussy. You will auto-feed only 8.5 x 11 pages under a certain paper weight. Legal size paper? Nope. Thick paper? Nope. And it will occasionally fail to grab an oddly-creased page and just spin. So I don't recommend leaving it completely unattended. But it's not as loud as our old, much smaller shredder, so you put 200 pages in, close the top, pop in some earbuds, and go back to work listening for it to stop when done, or the sounds of spinning but not grinding if it can't get a page. That happened 2-3 times in what was probably around 2,000 pages. Maybe it'll break easily tomorrow, but it hasn't yet, and that was a trial by fire. The most significant drawback is the bin. The shredded bits are truly tiny. That's not the drawback. That's exactly what you want from a shredder. But the shredded bits have volume. Our shredding filled two 30-gallon trash bags completely. And the tiny bits are small and light enough to take flight in any breeze. Or no breeze. The bin has lots of hooked plastic bits on it that seem highly optimized to the task of destroying trash bags. Through which the teeny tiny shredded bits can and do easily escape. So don't try to put the bin inside a trash bag and empty it that way unless you need a flexible sieve. Just empty the bin with a vacuum cleaner handy, preferably with someone else to hold the bag open. The shredded bits seem like they would make decent insulation or possibly stuffing. However, they also seem like they would make excellent tinder, so don't empty this shredder near open flame. Shredding also seems to create some fine dust that tend to poof into the air when you remove the bin, so it's possible that you may inhale some of your shredded papers when you empty the bin. It smells like victory!

This machine is very impressive for the money. Overall value is excellent. It is much quieter than many shredders with the same security rating that I have had. The feeder system that allows you to shred 120 sheets is priceless in that you can essentially load it up and forget it for 10 or so minutes. The shred bin is pretty large and will take about two complete runs of the feeder bin. Maintenance is pretty easy in that it uses vegetable oil (per the owner's manual) for lubrication and it will shut itself down before it overheats (only happened to me once). The consistency of the cuts are excellent and the shredding rolls don't get gunked up with strips on the left or right of the rolls as happens with many other shredders. The cutting time versus cool-down time is excellent for this machine as well. Since the feeder can run while you're doing other things, it would be easy to consistently run it too long, but as long as you let it go off for ten minutes every hour or so, it won't overheat. I almost consistently do this inadvertently. As to the ability for this machine to shred paper clips and other materials, I have not tried this. It has been my practice not to ever intentionally do this to anything but industrial size shredders that have hoppers similar to wood chipper/shredders and are built to shred books, binders, etc. Overall, I'd recommend this for every small business that is concerned with/required to destroy sensitive documents.

excelnete producto a pezar de lo pequeño que es

Works great

Best Shredder I have ever owned, very quite as well. Really like the feature where you can insert a large stack of papers to be shredded and just walk away.

No funciona bien. Poca capacidad. Se descompuso muy pronto

it has a paper feed system not direct fee this makes this product less useful as its not likely a stack of messy papers will feed so easily this was not well reflected on the online product description also added complexity makes this likely to malfunction so returning product will buy better product and more power this is not IMO commercial grade for my usage