Certified data destruction for business IT

We wipe every drive to NIST 800-88 and certify the result. Every device gets a Certificate of Data Destruction listing it by serial, like the sample certificate on this page.

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Sample certificate

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Certificate of Data Destruction

Sample. Customer: Example Practice Ltd. Standard: NIST 800-88.

Device	Serial	Drive	Method	Result
Lenovo ThinkPad T14 Gen 2	PF3SAMPLE	512 GB NVMe	Overwrite, verified	Pass
HP EliteDesk 800 G4	CZC8SAMPLE	256 GB SSD	Overwrite, verified	Pass
Dell Latitude 5490	J7SAMPLE2	500 GB HDD	Overwrite, verified	Pass
Apple iPad (9th gen)	DMPSAMPLE	n/a	Factory reset	Logged
Avaya 9608G desk phone	13WZSAMPLE	n/a	Factory defaults	Logged

Date 01/11/2026 · Operator WBYT-01We Buy Your Tech

What the service covers

Hard drives and SSDs in laptops, desktops and servers
Mobile phones and tablets
Desk phones

Data destruction comes with every IT collection.

How we destroy the data

We log each device by serial and model on arrival, and photograph the serial label.
Drives go through our in-house erasure system: every sector is overwritten and the overwrite verified, to NIST 800-88.
We check drive health and power-on hours and log them alongside the serial.
We reset phones and tablets to factory settings and log each one by serial.
We clear desk phones to factory defaults, log them by serial and model, and cover them with a signed certificate.

What the certificates show

Make and model
Serial number
Drive
Method
Standard, NIST 800-88
Result
Date
Who carried out the work

The erasure method and the NIST 800-88 standard appear against every drive on the certificate, alongside the serial that ties that line back to one physical device. A separate Certificate of Collection lists what we took, at the level of detail that fits the lot. That might be a device model where we know it, or a description such as four HP towers where we don't. Both certificates arrive as PDFs by email.

Phones and tablets

We reset phones and tablets to factory settings, log each one by serial and list it on our certificate. Apple devices are erased through the device's own reset, and signing them out of iCloud first lets us reuse them. We take phones and tablets of any age or condition, locked or not.

Who it's for

This service suits any business retiring kit that held client or staff data. Say an accountancy practice is replacing 15 laptops. Each one is logged, wiped and certified before it leaves our unit. See what we collect for the full range of kit we take.

Questions about data destruction

What standard do you wipe to?

Every drive is overwritten and the overwrite verified, to NIST 800-88. We also check drive health, recording SMART status and power-on hours, so you have a record of the drive's condition as well as proof it's been wiped. The standard and result both appear on the Certificate of Data Destruction for that device.

Do I get a certificate for each device?

Yes. We log every device we collect by serial and model, and each one gets its own line on the Certificate of Data Destruction, showing make, model, serial, drive, method, standard, result, date and who carried out the work. The certificate arrives as a PDF by email.

Do you wipe kit that has no resale value?

Yes. Every device we collect goes through the same process, whatever its condition, and every one appears on the Certificate of Data Destruction. A drawer of old phones gets the same logging, reset and certification as a laptop fleet.