IT asset disposition and data center decommissioning
From a single server closet to a colocation floor: we inventory by serial number, pull and destroy every drive on your site, recycle the chassis through R2-certified partners, and resell only the parts that never held data. Your data security outranks our resale value, and that changes how a decommission is done.
What ITAD means when destruction comes first
Most IT asset disposition is built around resale: the vendor collects your equipment, wipes it, and sells it whole, and its margin depends on keeping the hardware working. Ours is built around destruction. Every computer, phone, and tablet is disassembled, its storage is destroyed in front of you, its boards go to a domestic smelter, and only parts with no data path (displays, keyboards, power supplies, memory, processors, chassis, rails) are resold or recycled. We earn less per device than a resale vendor. The drive that would have paid for the discount is the drive that shows up in a breach. How our resale works.
Data center decommissioning
A data center floor is where mobile destruction pays off most. One trailer processes about 4,000 drives a day, so a rack-by-rack decommission runs on your migration schedule rather than a recycler's pickup calendar. We pull drives with your staff, capture every serial against the host, degauss and shred magnetic drives, disintegrate solid-state, and stage nothing. Server chassis, rails, switches, and PDUs go to reuse or scrap with the drives already gone. Central Ohio's data center corridor, and the hyperscale and colocation floors around Columbus, Detroit, Pittsburgh, and Northern Virginia, are the jobs this truck was built for.
End-of-life fleets
A Windows 10 refresh, a hospital's clinic PCs, a school district's cart of Chromebooks: hundreds of identical devices, each needing a serial record. We inventory at your dock, pull or disintegrate the storage, and return a certificate per serial plus recycling documentation. Laptops with soldered storage are destroyed whole. Desktops have their drives pulled and destroyed and the chassis recycled or resold as a bare chassis, listed as such.
The documentation an auditor wants
A Certificate of Destruction listing each serial, the method, the machine, the date, and the witness. Recycling documentation with downstream due diligence through R2-certified partners. For CUI, the chain-of-custody record a CMMC assessor expects under 800-171 requirement 3.8.3. For SAP material, an itemized certificate signed by your briefed personnel. For HIPAA, a Business Associate Agreement signed before the first drive is touched. The standards, in one place.
Planning it with you
Large decommissions start with a call and a walk-through, on-site or from a rack list and photos. We help sequence the work around your cutover, decide what gets serial-logged, and set the standard for each media class. If you are weighing whether to buy your own equipment and run the program in-house, we give you a written buy-or-outsource recommendation, and we say so if buying makes sense. Technical consultation.
By mail
Unclassified media can travel by tracked carrier. Per-item prices, $59 minimum, prepaid label included under 10 lb. Price a box.
- Whole laptop, by mail$16
Where we do it
Anywhere in the lower 48, next-day in our closest metros. Columbus, Cleveland, Akron, Canton, Toledo, Youngstown, Dayton, Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, Erie, Wheeling, Morgantown, and 29 more.
Who uses this
Healthcare, Law enforcement and courts, Defense contractors, Federal, state, and local government, Education, Financial services, Data centers and colocation, Aerospace and defense suppliers.
Other services
Questions
Do you resell our servers?
Not whole, ever. Drives are destroyed on your site. Chassis, rails, power supplies, and memory can be resold or recycled, listed as what they are, and only if your agreement allows resale. If it does not, everything goes to recycling.
Can you decommission a full floor in one visit?
Usually. One trailer runs about 4,000 drives a day; a larger floor is staged over consecutive days, or the semi once it is in service. Tell us the rack count and drive mix and we plan around your migration window.
How do you handle drives we cannot get out of the chassis?
We bring the chassis to the truck and pull them there. Nothing leaves your site with a drive still in it.
Do we get a serial-level record?
Yes. Serial capture is standard on decommissions and larger fleets, and available on request for anything smaller. The certificate matches your asset system line for line.
What does a decommission cost?
It is quoted individually from rack and drive counts, media mix, standard, and distance, with per-item rates that fall at volume. The quote is the price. What moves the number.