Lab computers, staff laptops, and student-information servers hold records that schools are obligated to protect. When they're retired, the data should be retired with them.
Schools and universities retire hardware in big waves — lab refreshes, staff laptop replacements, server migrations. The drives inside hold grades, disciplinary files, health and counseling notes, financial aid records, and staff HR data.
EndByte makes those refreshes simple to document: drives logged by serial at pickup, sanitized to NIST 800-88 or physically destroyed, verified, and certified. On-site service can be scheduled around the academic calendar.
The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act protects the privacy of student education records. Schools and districts are responsible for keeping those records from being disclosed — including on hardware they retire. Documented, verified destruction closes that gap.
General information, not legal advice. Your compliance obligations depend on your organization — check with your counsel or compliance lead.
Every drive logged by serial before it moves, so your asset records and ours match.
Every wiped drive is read back in full. Anything that fails is physically destroyed.
Model, serial, method, date, and result — formatted for the people who audit you.
Summer and break-week refreshes are easy to plan.
Drives wiped or destroyed at your campus, witnessed by IT.
Large refreshes of working drives may qualify for the free program.
Tell us the count and timeline and we'll plan around it.