HSM SECURIO P44i 1/32 x 7/16 plus OMDD cutting unit 2x2mm

This configuration answers the one real weakness of the standard P-6 P44i: it cannot take optical media. A separate 2 x 2 mm OMDD cutting unit is fitted alongside the paper head, rated O-6 for CDs, DVDs, credit cards and floppy disks. Paper performance is identical to the base 1875 - 0.78 x 11 mm micro cut, DIN 66399 P-6, 17 to 19 sheets of 80 g/m² per pass - and the two heads are physically independent, so discs never pass through the paper cutters.

Every P44i shares the same cabinet and drivetrain: a 15.75-inch (400 mm) intake that swallows letter, legal and A3 sheets without folding, a 54.2-gallon (205 L) pull-out collection cabinet, a 1,900 W IntelligentDrive motor, and a touch display that reports bin status and jams in plain language. Idle noise is quoted at roughly 55 dB(A). The cabinet measures 27.56 x 23.31 x 43.5 inches (700 x 592 x 1105 mm), so it clears a standard 36-inch doorway on its casters but needs a dedicated footprint rather than a corner of a copy room. What changes from article to article is the cutting head - and that is the only thing you actually need to decide.

Key Features

• Separate 2 x 2 mm OMDD cutting unit - 4 mm² fragments of optical and magnetic media, rated O-6 by HSM. This is the finest media head offered on the P44i chassis.
• P-6 paper unchanged - 0.78 x 11 mm at 17-19 sheets. Adding the media unit costs you nothing in paper capacity.
• Two independent heads - paper wear and media wear stay separate, and so do the waste streams if you want to recycle the paper fraction.
• Full E-5, F-3, O-6 and T-6 ratings - a single machine that covers paper, film, optical media and electronic data carriers at high security levels.
• Integrated automatic oiler and touch display - the micro-cut head is lubricated by the machine on its own schedule.
• 400 mm intake and 54.2-gallon cabinet - department scale, not desk-side.

Specifications

One point of vocabulary: this article is listed in US catalogs as a "cross cut". At 0.78 x 11 mm it is properly a micro-cut - DIN 66399 places P-5, P-6 and P-7 in the micro-cut band, and P-6 requires both a particle area of 10 mm² or less and a width of 1 mm or less. A 0.78 x 11 mm particle is 8.58 mm² and 0.78 mm wide, so it meets both tests. This is a common mislabel worth catching: the same cut is frequently and wrongly published as P-5.

What's in the Box

The P44i ships as one assembled unit: shredder head mounted on its collection cabinet, power cord and operating manual. HSM classes the reusable collecting bag and the P44i cardboard collection box as consumables, which means they are ordered separately - no bags or boxes are included with the machine. Budget for a starter supply with the initial order so the cabinet is usable on day one. Freight is curbside on a pallet unless you arrange inside delivery; at over 230 lb this is not a two-person carry up a stairwell.

Who Should Buy This - and Who Should Not

Buy it if one department needs high-security destruction of both paper and small media, and you would rather buy one machine than two. Legal, R&D, government contracting and clinical research teams routinely produce both. O-6 at 2 x 2 mm is a genuinely serious optical media result, not a token feature.

Do not buy it if you never shred discs - the plain SECURIO P44i 1875 is the same paper machine for less money and 13 lb less weight. Do not buy it for hard drives or SSDs either; the OMDD unit is not rated for them and the StoreEx HDS 150 or HDS 230 exist for that. And if 17-19 sheets per pass will not keep up with your paper volume, the P-4 1873 with the separate CD cutting unit gives you 43-45 sheets and an O-4 media head instead. Note also that HSM's lifetime cutting-roller warranty covers P-2 to P-5 only, so this machine sits outside it.