An ITAD lives or dies on throughput and on audit. Throughput pays the bills; audit keeps the certification that lets you win the contract in the first place. Software that is fast but unverifiable costs you the second, and software that is careful but slow costs you the first.
Data Sanitization Pro is built for the bay. Up to eight drives per machine run at the same time, each tracked as its own job, each verified after the wipe and each producing its own signed certificate. Volume comes from running benches in parallel, not from queueing drives behind one another. Hardware diagnostics run in the same pass, so a drive is graded for resale at the same moment it is cleared for it.
Reports export in the formats your certification bodies expect, and licences are per device rather than per seat — so a busy month costs what it should, and a quiet one does not.
The Risks This Removes
Audit Findings on Sampling
Certification schemes increasingly want evidence per asset, not a sampled batch. If your process produces one report for a pallet, that is a finding waiting to happen.
Throughput Lost to Serial Wiping
Wiping drives one at a time turns a bay into a bottleneck. The cost is not the software licence; it is the technician hours and the floor space.
Value Destroyed by Guesswork
Grading a drive by eye means good stock gets shredded and failing stock gets resold. Both are expensive, and the second one comes back.
Identify, Erase, Verify, Report, Then Decide
Repeatable in exactly this order is what makes it defensible. An auditor is testing the process as much as the result.
- 01
Identify
Assets are logged against your own reference as they land, so the certificate matches your system and not a second list.
- 02
Erase
The standard the client's contract names, applied per drive, with the diagnostic pass running alongside it.
- 03
Verify
Read back and compared. Anything that does not verify is routed to destruction rather than to the resale pile.
- 04
Report
One certificate per asset, plus a batch summary. R2, ADISA and e-Stewards all want the first, not only the second.
- 05
Resell, Recycle or Destroy
The grade decides where it goes. The certificate is what lets it go anywhere at all.
Erase and Grade in One Pass
The hardware diagnostic runs alongside the wipe: SMART attributes, reallocated sectors, power-on hours, read and write throughput, and a pass or fail against thresholds you set. By the time the drive comes out of the bay it has both a certificate and a grade.
Reports Your Auditor Already Accepts
Per-asset certificates carrying serial, model, capacity, method, passes, duration, operator and verification result. Batch summaries for the job. CSV export for your ERP. Nothing has to be rebuilt at audit time because it was all captured at erasure time.
The Process, Step by Step
Intake and Log
Drives are logged with client, job and asset references, so certificates can be handed back to the client they belong to.
Erase, Verify, Grade
Up to eight drives per machine, running at once. Erasure to the standard the client's contract specifies, a verification read-back and a diagnostic grade, all in the same run.
Certify and Hand Back
A signed certificate per drive plus a job summary. Failed drives are separated for destruction with the reason recorded.
Certification Schemes This Supports
- R2v3 — data sanitization requirements under Appendix B, including verification of sanitization
- ADISA — asset disposal assurance with per-asset evidence
- e-Stewards — data security requirements for downstream processing
- NAID AAA — sanitization and verification records for certified destruction
- ISO 27001 — media handling and secure disposal controls
- NIST SP 800-88 Rev. 2 — Clear and Purge methods by media type
- 8 at onceDrives Erased in Parallel
The Concurrent Sanitization Limit takes 1, 2, 4 or 8 drives per machine and ships on 4. Each drive is tracked as its own job, so one failure never hides behind the others finishing.
- 25 methodsErasure Standards Built In
NIST SP 800-88 Clear and Purge, IEEE 2883, DoD 5220.22-M, BSI, DPDP and twenty more. The software issues what the medium actually supports.
- 1 per assetCertificate, Not One per Pallet
R2, e-Stewards and ADISA all want evidence against the asset. A single report covering a batch is the finding an auditor writes up.
- 100%Of Erased Drives Read Back
No pass is recorded on the strength of the command returning success. Every drive is read back and compared before it is certified.
Frequently Asked Questions
How is it licensed for a processing floor?
Per device erased, not per seat or per machine. You can run it on as many stations as you like and pay for the drives you actually process. Licences do not expire.
Can we put our own branding on the certificate?
Yes. Certificates carry your logo and company details, so the document you hand back to a client is yours rather than ours.
Does it handle SAS and enterprise drives?
Yes — SATA, SAS, NVMe, M.2, mSATA and PCIe, including self-encrypting drives, where cryptographic erase is issued rather than an overwrite.
Can erasure data go into our ERP?
Reports export as CSV and PDF for import into ERP and inventory systems, so certificate data does not have to be re-keyed.
Run It on Your Own Bay
Try it on a real batch, with your own drives and your own certification requirements, before you decide.