Disk Sanitization is the Standard

What Happens to Old Drives When We Remove Equipment

When Dataforge removes old servers or storage equipment from a client site, any drives that come out of service are securely sanitized before the hardware goes anywhere else.

This isn’t a service we sell. It’s standard practice.

Over the years, we built our own internal tools to handle this process properly and consistently. They’re designed specifically for decommissioning work: identifying drives, validating their state, and ensuring data is actually wiped before equipment leaves our control.

Old drives can still contain real data — even ones that are failing or no longer in active use. That can include historical files, configuration data, logs, or backups. Treating that casually is an easy way to create problems later.

When equipment is retired:
- Drives are handled individually
- Secure sanitization is performed using our internal tooling
- Hardware does not leave with recoverable data on it

We don’t advertise this as a feature because it isn’t one. It’s an example of how Dataforge approaches security: through process.

If we’re responsible for installing and managing your infrastructure, we’re equally responsible for shutting it down correctly when its time is up.