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Physical Destruction

Some drives can't be wiped, and some policies don't care if they can. Shredding and crushing reduce media to fragments no laboratory recovers data from.

When the answer has to be steel

Physical destruction exists for three situations: drives that fail wipe verification, degraded or dead media that can't be reliably sanitized in software, and media your security policy requires destroyed regardless of condition.

EndByte handles all three. Drives are shredded or hydraulically crushed, the destruction is documented device by device, and you receive the same per-device certificate as a software wipe — serial, method, date, result.

Destroyed material doesn't go to a landfill. Fragments are processed through responsible e-waste recycling channels, and that disposition is part of your documentation too.

What's included

Serial-level intake

Every device logged before destruction, keeping the custody chain unbroken.

Shredding & crushing

Mechanical destruction that leaves nothing recoverable.

SSD-aware handling

Flash media destroyed to fragment sizes appropriate for chip-level storage.

Per-device certificates

Serial, method, date, and result for every unit destroyed.

Responsible recycling

Fragments processed through documented e-waste channels.

Witness option

Watch the destruction happen — in person or via our on-site service.

How it works

01
Intake

Devices logged by serial; custody opens.

02
Destroy

Shred or crush, device by device.

03
Document

Certificates issued for every unit.

04
Recycle

Material routed to responsible e-waste processing.

Got media that needs to be gone for good?

Failed drives, old tapes, policy purges — send the count and we'll quote it.