Media Sanitization and Destruction Services
On-site and secure-facility work, organised by the media you are retiring. Every asset leaves with a certificate and an entry in the chain of custody.
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Retiring hardware is not one job. A shelf of SATA drives, a rack of SSDs, a crate of handsets and a decommissioned SAN each fail differently, and a method that is thorough on one is theatre on another. That is why these pages are split by media rather than by package: what happens to your asset should be decided by what the asset is.
What does not change is the end of the job. Whatever the media, the erase is read back and checked, the result is recorded against that serial number, and a certificate is issued that somebody who was not present can verify.
The Risks This Removes
One Method Applied to Everything
A three-pass overwrite is meaningful on a platter and close to meaningless on flash, where the controller decides which cells are touched. A vendor who quotes the same method for every media type is describing a price list, not a process.
The Gap Between Collection and Erasure
If data is erased at the recycler, the exposure lasts the whole journey — loading, transport, storage, queue. Erasing before the asset moves closes that window entirely, which is why on-site work exists.
Evidence That Arrives as a Summary
A letter saying forty assets were destroyed answers nothing about asset seventeen. The unit of evidence has to be the drive, not the batch.
The Process, Step by Step
Identify
Every unit is recorded by make, model and serial before anything is done to it. That record is what the certificate is later tied to.
Choose the Method
Overwrite, cryptographic erase, firmware secure erase or physical destruction, according to the media and to what your policy or regulator requires.
Erase and Verify
The write is followed by a read-back. A drive that will not verify is reported as failed and routed to destruction rather than being passed as done.
Certify and Hand Over
One certificate per asset, carrying the method, the verification result and the operator, plus a consolidated register for the batch.
Which Page You Want
- Hard disk drive — platters, where overwriting is the right answer and verification is straightforward
- Solid state drive — flash, where wear levelling means the controller has to be told rather than overwritten
- Flash storage — USB sticks, SD and CF cards, the media most often forgotten in a drawer
- Mobile phone — handsets and tablets, where encryption state decides whether a reset is enough
- SAN / NAS / server — shelves and arrays that cannot simply be carried to a bench
- Digital storage — tape, optical and the older formats nothing else will read
- On-site service — the work done at your premises so nothing leaves un-erased
- Chain of custody — how an asset is tracked from collection to certificate
- Certificate — what the document contains and why it can be checked
Frequently Asked Questions
Do you erase on our site or take the hardware away?
Either. On-site is the stronger position because the data never travels, and it is what regulated environments normally require. Where volume or logistics make that impractical, assets move under a sealed chain of custody and are processed in the facility.
What happens to a drive that fails the erase?
It is recorded as failed and destroyed physically. A drive that cannot be verified cannot be certified, and passing it as complete would defeat the purpose of the exercise.
Can you handle mixed media in one job?
That is the normal case. A decommissioning almost always includes drives, laptops, phones and something older nobody expected. Each is processed by the method its media needs and all of it lands in one register.
Is the certificate different for each service?
The format is the same so your auditor only has to learn one document. What changes is the method line and the verification line, because those are what actually differ between a platter and a phone.
Hard Disk Drive
Certified HDD erasure, degaussing and shredding
Read moreSolid State Drive
Firmware secure-erase and cryptographic wipe
Read moreFlash Storage
USB sticks, SD cards and pen drives, verified
Read moreMobile Phone
Android and iPhone, certificate per device
Read moreSAN / NAS / Server
RAID-aware enterprise wiping, on-site or remote
Read moreDigital Storage
Cameras, biometric units and embedded media
Read moreTell Us What You Are Retiring
Media types and rough counts are enough to come back with a method and a price.