Every drive is cleared, purged, or destroyed
Cryptographic erasure, magnetic degaussing, and hydraulic shearing, with the outcome recorded against the drive serial before anything leaves the bench.
How the path is chosen
Media type and functional health decide the route. Healthy drives that will be remarketed take the firmware erase their controller supports. Drives that fail diagnostics, and drives under a client destruction mandate, skip the wipe entirely and go to the punch.
High-density multi-pass wipe backplanes
Oblitero, our in-house bare-metal sanitization engine, talks straight to SAS, SATA, NVMe, and Fibre Channel controller microcode. It runs the NIST SP 800-88 Rev. 2 Purge command set, reads back the logical block address range it wrote, and carries no per-drive licence cost to you.
Hydraulic mechanical platter punch
The press drives hardened conical pins through the cast aluminum chassis, the drive motor, and the platters. What comes out the other side is a deformed casing and fractured media, confirmed by sight at the punch station and recorded against the serial.
Processing tiers
In-house multi-pass purge
Oblitero runs the NIST SP 800-88 Rev. 2 Purge command set across the addressable range and verifies what it wrote.
- SATA, SAS, NVMe and Fibre Channel
- Sector-by-sector verification check
- Serialized drive manifest output
Magnetic degaussing
For defective or obsolete magnetic media, a degaussing field collapses the magnetic domains along with the manufacturer servo tracks, which leaves the drive unusable.
- Aligned to DoD 5220.22-M expectations
- Applied to magnetic media only
- Recorded against the drive serial number
Hydraulic mechanical punch
Physical destruction behind a polycarbonate shield, through the chassis, platters, and controller board.
- Physical platter deformation
- Visual confirmation at the station
- Direct downstream refining routing
Need drives destroyed rather than wiped?
Tell dispatch which outcome your policy requires, Clear, Purge, or Destroy, and the bench works to it. Either way the lot returns as a serialized certificate you can look up online.