EndByte does one thing: certified data destruction. Wiping, shredding, secure pickup — and every single drive leaves with a verifiable certificate, or it doesn't leave at all.
EndByte does data destruction — not as a side service, but as the whole company. Wiped or destroyed, picked up or mailed in, every path ends in a certificate. Businesses and data centers are our core work, and we offer a lighter personal service for individuals too.
Multi-pass NIST 800-88 sanitization with full-surface verification. Every sector read back to zero — or the drive doesn't get a certificate.
Learn more → SVC / SHREDShredding and crushing for failed media, tapes, and policy-mandated destruction. Fragments no laboratory recovers data from.
Learn more → SVC / CUSTODYSerial-level inventory at your site, sealed transport, and signed handoffs — documented from your door to destruction.
Learn more → SVC / CERTIFYPer-drive certificates and reconciled batch reports — serial, method, date, and result, formatted for the people who audit you.
Learn more → SVC / FREEThe full certified process at zero cost when we retain the sanitized drives. You get compliance; the hardware pays the bill.
Learn more → SVC / PERSONALSelling or recycling an old computer? Mail in your drive and we'll make sure your personal data is truly gone — single drives welcome.
Learn more →Built for businesses and IT teams retiring drives in volume. Send us 100 or more drives, let us keep them after they're wiped and verified, and the entire service is free — professional KillDisk sanitization, per-drive certificates, zero invoice. You get compliance. We recover the hardware. Everyone wins.
Fewer drives? The instant estimator covers individual and small-batch jobs, with 50% off when you let us resell.
The things data center and IT teams ask us most. Don't see yours? Call or send a message — straight answers, no sales runaround.
Yes — but the method matters. SSDs store data differently from spinning drives, so a standard multi-pass overwrite isn't enough on its own. We use the drive's built-in secure-erase and sanitize commands where supported, verify the result, and physically destroy any SSD that can't be reliably verified. NIST 800-88 covers flash media specifically, and we follow it.
Per drive: the device model and serial number, the method used (wipe standard or destruction type), the date, the operator, and the verification result. For batch jobs, all of it rolls up into a single audit report that reconciles against the original intake list — so your auditor can match every drive received to its final disposition.
No catch — it's an aligned trade. Properly wiped, working enterprise drives still hold resale value. When you let us keep the drives after they're sanitized and verified, that recovered value covers the cost of the service, so we don't invoice you. You get the full certified process; we recover the hardware. It fits best with working enterprise drives in reasonable volume — if your media is mostly failed or policy-bound to physical destruction, we'll tell you up front and quote the paid service instead.
They're physically destroyed — shredded or crushed — and documented the same way as everything else. A drive that can't prove it was wiped clean never goes back into circulation and never gets returned as "probably fine." Failure handling is automatic and on the record.
For businesses, we offer secure pickup — we inventory every drive by serial at your site, transport it sealed, and reconcile the certificates against the pickup list. Bay Area pickup-to-certificate typically runs about 24 hours. Individuals can mail drives in through our personal service. Either way, every drive is accounted for from the moment we take custody.
Yes — the San Francisco Bay Area and Silicon Valley, including San Jose, Santa Clara, Sunnyvale, Fremont, Oakland, and San Francisco. Not sure if you're in range? Just ask.
Both. Alongside our business and data center work, we offer a lighter personal service for individuals — a single laptop drive, an old desktop, a handful of drives from a home office, or media left behind on a family member's computer. Same certified standards, scaled to the job. Whether the free program applies depends on the drive, so just tell us what you have and we'll let you know.
One message covers it — drive counts, condition, wipe vs. shred, and whether the free program fits. We'll reply with a straight answer, usually same day.
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