Enterprise SSDs and HDDs — SAS, SATA and NVMe, in bulk. Drives are the line finance writes down to zero fastest and the line that most often turns out to be worth the most: they hold value long after the array they shipped in is out of support. We buy the drives, not the array — pull them out and sell them by the tray.
| Type | Typical |
|---|---|
| SAS SSDs | 2.5" / 3.5" enterprise, read- and mixed-use, any capacity |
| SATA SSDs | Enterprise / data-centre SSDs, any capacity — no consumer drives |
| NVMe SSDs | U.2 / U.3 and add-in-card, enterprise |
| SAS / SATA HDDs | 10K / 15K and nearline, enterprise only, in bulk |
| Pulled from arrays | Disks out of NetApp, Dell EMC, HPE or Pure shelves — sold loose, by the tray |
We buy the drives, not the shelves, controllers or cabinets they came in. If you're clearing a storage array, pull the disks — that's the part with an active secondary market — and the empty chassis stays your removal contractor's problem.
Enterprise drives are built for duty cycles that outlast the array they shipped in, so a tray of 3.84TB SAS SSDs is still perfectly good hardware when the controller in front of it is out of support. And the people who run these platforms need spares for kit that's no longer sold — a discontinued enterprise disk that keeps a production array alive is worth considerably more than its weight. That's why the drives keep their value long after finance has written the array to zero.
Every data-bearing device is sanitised with the method its media actually requires — a firmware-level SANITIZE or crypto-erase for flash, verified overwrite or degauss for spinning disks. Multi-pass overwrite on an SSD is a comfort blanket, not a sanitisation method: the controller's wear-levelling and over-provisioned blocks sit outside the addressable range, so data survives in places a host-level wipe never reaches.
Anything that won't verify clean doesn't get resold — it gets destroyed, and the destruction is recorded on the same certificate.
Capacity, interface (SAS / SATA / NVMe), form factor and quantity, and whether they're SSD or spinning. For SSDs, note the endurance (DWPD) if you have it; for HDDs, the power-on hours — both move the price. Photos of the drive labels are genuinely faster than a spreadsheet — the model and part numbers are printed right on the disk.
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