Hard Drive Destruction

NIST 800-88 purge-level overwriting leaves the drive functional, which preserves resale value and therefore improves your offer. It is appropriate for the large majority of enterprise data and is verifiable per drive.

Degaussing destroys magnetic domains and renders spinning media permanently unreadable. It is fast and irreversible, and the drive is scrap afterwards. It is meaningless for solid-state media, which we handle by cryptographic erase or shredding.

Physical shredding is the most defensible option and the one auditors like best. It can be performed at your facility, witnessed by your security team, with certificates issued before the truck leaves the property.

Drives are separated at de-rack, recorded by serial, sealed into tracked containers, and moved under documented custody. Nothing is aggregated into an untracked bin. The closeout report matches each destroyed serial to the asset it came from, which is what makes it usable evidence rather than a generic letter.

HIPAA, PCI DSS, FERPA, SOX, GLBA, CJIS and federal workloads all impose different documentation and handling expectations. Tell us the framework at the quote stage and we adjust scope — on-site-only destruction, escorted crews, background-checked personnel, restricted hours, witness sign-off — so the output satisfies your auditor.