Every byte
down to zero.
Certified.

Yes — but the method matters. SSDs store data differently from spinning drives, so a standard 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.

Yes. Our default is NIST 800-88, the current federal guideline, but our bench supports DoD 5220.22-M (3-pass and 7-pass ECE), U.S. Army, Air Force and Navy standards, British HMG IS5, German VSITR, Canadian OPS-II, Gutmann and more — see the full list. If your policy names one, we run it and your certificate says so. Worth knowing: on modern drives, extra passes take longer without making the data any more gone — the verification is what proves it.

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 takes 2–3 business days, depending on how many drives and how large they are. 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, San Francisco, Mountain View, Palo Alto, Cupertino, Milpitas, and Redwood City. 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.