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By asset type
Servers, storage and the rest of the estate.
Recorded by serial, assessed for working life before recycling, reconciled at every handover. The media inside is treated as a separate problem — because it is.
Coverage
What comes out of a typical estate.
Rack & tower servers
1U to 4U rack servers, tower and edge units, with rails, bezels and accessories recovered alongside them. Recorded by make, model and serial at collection.
Storage arrays & shelves
Controllers, expansion shelves and JBODs logged as a set. Drive carriers counted and reconciled against the array configuration rather than estimated.
Networking & security
Switches, routers, firewalls, load balancers and wireless infrastructure, including line cards and optics recorded against their chassis.
Power & rack infrastructure
Rack UPS units, battery cabinets, PDUs, enclosures and containment. Batteries are declared upfront because they change how a load is transported.
Tape & archive
Tape libraries, drives and cartridges. Media is declared and handled separately from the hardware that reads it.
Components & spares
Memory, processors, expansion cards, transceivers and spare modules — the store-room stock that is usually left out of a disposal scope entirely.
Data-bearing media
The drives are the part that keeps people awake.
A missing server is an inventory problem. A missing drive is a disclosure problem. So media is never bundled into a general count — it is identified at scoping, itemised at handover, and handled exactly as you instruct.
- Every data-bearing unit is identified at scoping, not discovered at collection
- Media appears on its own itemised lines of the handover record
- Your written instruction governs what happens to it — no default is assumed
- Where media transfers to us, it is logged against its host asset and tracked
- If your policy needs a standard we cannot meet, we tell you before you commit
We do not publish a data-destruction certification we do not hold. If your policy requires one, ask us directly and we will confirm our current position in writing — including where the right answer is that media should stay with you.
Valuation
What decides whether hardware is worth something.
Residual value is a function of generation, configuration, condition and demand — not of what the equipment cost when it was bought. A four-year-old two-socket server with populated memory can still be worth recovering; the same chassis stripped of its drives, memory and rails frequently is not.
Completeness matters more than most organisations expect. Rails, caddies, bezels, power supplies and optics all affect whether a unit is re-deployable or only good for parts. Keeping them together through the collection is one of the simplest ways to protect value.
We assess before we quote, and we tell you what the assessment found. Where the honest answer is that the scope carries no meaningful residual value, you will hear that rather than an optimistic number that changes later.
- Generation and configuration, not original purchase price
- Completeness — rails, caddies, PSUs, optics and modules
- Condition and whether the unit powers on and passes basic checks
- Volume and consistency across the consignment
- Cost of collection and processing against realisable value
Process
The same six stages apply, whatever the asset type.
- Step 01
Asset Discovery
Establish exactly what is being retired, and where it sits.
- Step 02
Collection & Logistics
Move the hardware off your floor without disrupting what stays.
- Step 03
Asset Assessment
Determine what still has working life, and what does not.
- Step 04
Data Security & Processing
Media handled the way you instruct, recorded line by line.
- Step 05
Reuse & Recovery
Keep working hardware working before it becomes material.
- Step 06
Responsible Recycling
Close out end-of-life material through accountable channels.
FAQ
Questions we are asked before the first call
- 01Do you assess servers for reuse, or is everything recycled?
- Assessment comes first. Units are checked for condition, completeness and working life before any disposition decision, because a working server is worth considerably more as a server than as material. What cannot be reused moves to component recovery, and only then to recycling.
- 02Can we keep the drives and hand over the rest?
- Yes, and for many organisations that is the cleanest answer. Remove the media before handover, note it on the scope, and the drives never leave your control. The handover record will show the units as collected without media.
- 03Do you handle equipment still under warranty or lease?
- We exclude it. Leased hardware, vendor trade-ins and anything under an active support contract should go back through that route. We ask you to flag these at scoping so they are excluded in writing rather than collected by mistake.
- 04What about very old or end-of-support hardware?
- It is still in scope. Legacy equipment rarely carries reuse value, so the commercial basis differs, but it is collected, recorded and routed with the same documentation as anything else.
Have servers or storage coming off support?
Send the list — or let us capture it at collection. Either way you get an itemised record back.