Used hard drives and SSDs, wiped and tested in Shropshire

We sell used hard drives and SSDs taken from business laptops and desktops collected across Shropshire, Cheshire and North Wales. Every drive is overwritten and verified to NIST 800-88 on our own bench near Oswestry, then health-checked before it goes up for sale. Tell us what you need and we'll tell you what we have.

3.5-inch hard drive turned PCB side up on the bench before wiping

What we sell

Stock depends on what's in at the time, so tell us which type you need and we'll check:

2.5-inch SATA SSDs
M.2 NVMe SSDs
2.5-inch laptop hard drives
3.5-inch desktop hard drives

Tell us the type, size and how many you need. We won't promise a specific model or quantity, but we'll tell you what's available.

If what you need is a working PC rather than a bare drive, we also sell whole machines with a clean Windows 11 Pro install.

How every drive is wiped

Every drive we handle goes through our in-house erasure system. Every sector is overwritten and the overwrite is verified, to NIST 800-88, and the drive's health and serial are logged. See how the wipe works for the detail.

If a drive throws errors during the wipe, it's set aside for physical destruction rather than going on sale.

How we check drive health

Once a drive has passed erasure, we check and record its health:

SMART status, which must read "Good"
Power-on hours, so you know how much use the drive has had
Health percentage, for SSDs that report one

Ask us for the SMART status and power-on hours of a specific drive before you buy and we'll send them over.

The drive arrives blank

A wiped drive has no partitions and no file system, so it arrives blank. Plug it into a Windows PC and it shows up in Disk Management as "not initialised". That's expected. To use it, initialise it (GPT suits most modern PCs), create a volume and format it, or install Windows straight onto it.

Buying a few, or a batch

Upgrading one PC or fitting out several, tell us the numbers and types you're after. Mainly we deal with businesses, but individuals are welcome to ask too.

Hard drive questions

Can I see the drive's health before I buy?

Yes. Ask us for the SMART status and power-on hours of the specific drive you're interested in and we'll send them before you commit to anything.

Is the old data gone?

Yes. Every drive is overwritten and the overwrite verified to NIST 800-88 before it's offered for sale. Any drive that fails this process is set aside for destruction, not sold.

Why doesn't my new drive show up in File Explorer?

Because it's been wiped, it has no partitions yet. Windows sees it as "not initialised" in Disk Management. Initialise it, create a volume and format it, or install Windows onto it, and it will show up as normal.

Can I collect from you, or do you deliver to Telford?

Tell us where you are, whether that's Telford, Shrewsbury, Wrexham or further out, and we'll sort how it gets to you. See our Telford page for more on the area we cover.

Got old kit to clear? That's our collection service.

Tell us what you need and we'll let you know what we've got.