Every drive follows the same audited path, in the same order, every time. Here's exactly what happens from the moment your hardware reaches us to the certificate in your records.
The chain of custody opens the moment your hardware reaches us. Every drive is logged by serial number and tagged, so there's a documented record of exactly what came in — no drive is ever unaccounted for. For business pickups, your team can witness intake and sealing before transport.
Drives are sanitized on our dedicated wipe bench using KillDisk Industrial, with multi-pass overwriting to the NIST 800-88 standard. The entire bench is monitored in real time, so every drive's progress is tracked through every pass — no guesswork, no drives left half-done.
A wipe isn't trusted until it's verified. We run a full-surface read-back to confirm every sector returns zero. Any drive that fails verification doesn't get a certificate — it gets physically destroyed instead, so nothing questionable ever leaves as "clean."
Every drive that passes gets its own certificate of destruction — serial number, method used, verification result, and date. That's your audit trail for compliance, and it's issued per drive, not per batch, so your records match your inventory exactly.
Once verified clean, working drives can re-enter the market responsibly — which is what makes our free program possible for bulk jobs. Anything that can't be reused, or was physically destroyed, is recycled through responsible e-waste channels. Nothing is landfilled carelessly.