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

This shredded is awesome. We have 2 different auto feed shredders and both work great for different jobs. This shredder is worth every penny. The pieces are so small that security is not an issue. The speed is pretty decent and with automatic shutdown if the shredder gets too hot. This shredder is definitely heavy duty and weighs a lot. I’ve ran this shredder for a long period of time without overheating. Read more

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!! Read more

Very good shredder worth the cost. Cut up seven huge leaf bags of old files. The auto feed is very useful in not having to sit there feeding the machine with handfuls of paper. Took me two days of intense feeding the machine only because I don’t like letting staples go through the machine and there was a LOT. Had no stopping due to overheating only stopping because the hopper was full. Not the fastest shredder but the micro cut is so fine. I didn’t let the machine stop that much so it goes to how strong the motor is. Read more

I've only had the for two days, and am always skeptical of reviews written after only short term use, but this does the job. I've shredded several thousand sheets. It performs well on uniform stacks of 8.5x11 paper, even if a few odd sized sheets are interspersed. When it does stall, it is easy to pull our the offending pages and restart. Feeding manually also is quite easy, and I've fed some fairly heavy stock and a few credit cards with no problem. It is very quiet and quite quick. It can handle staples as long as not more than a few sheets are stapled together. The instructions say it can handle small paper clips, but have not put that to the test. I recommend reading the instructions. Read more

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! Read more