Old Tech? Gone. Data? Destroyed.
Hard Drive Shredding
Physical destruction of hard drives down to compliance-grade particles. Our professional staff follow strict protocols and use a state-of-the-art hard drive shredder, at our own facility in Georgetown, for magnetic and SSD media.
Why Shred Instead of Delete
Hitting "delete" does not remove personal and sensitive data from a hard drive. Neither does taking a sledgehammer to it. Data can still be recovered from drives after an attempt to destroy them, and undestroyed data can mean a breach for a consumer and, most certainly, for a business.
Shredding ends that risk. Once a drive is reduced to particles there is nothing left to recover, and your Certificate of Destruction proves it. Securely destroying your sensitive data is not a cost; it is an investment in your future.
Media we shred
- Desktop and server hard drives
- Laptop hard drives
- Solid-state drives (SSDs)
- Drives from storage arrays and NAS units
- Loose drives from past refresh projects
Need drives wiped for resale instead? See secure data destruction.
Our Own Hard Drive Shredder
BoxQ does not send your drives to a third party to be destroyed. They go through our own industrial shredder, run by our own trained employees, and come out as small, mangled pieces of metal with nothing left to read. Every drive is logged by serial number before it goes in.
Drives go in one at a time, after each is logged. 
The cutters reduce each drive to fragments. 
Fragments are collected for downstream recycling.
Where Your Drives Are Shredded
All shredding happens at our own facility in Georgetown, never at a third party's. Here is how drives get there.
Collected by our own employees
Once your equipment is unplugged, BoxQ's own trained employees remove it from your building and load it onto a GPS-tracked BoxQ truck. No subcontractors and no hand-offs between your door and our facility.
Shredded at our Georgetown facility
Every drive is shredded in our own warehouse in Georgetown, on our own hard drive shredder. Each one is logged by serial number before it goes in, and your Certificate of Destruction records which drives were destroyed.
Every Drive Accounted For
Three steps, each one documented.
- 1
Serials recorded first
Every drive is logged by serial number before it is destroyed, so your report shows exactly which drives were shredded.
- 2
Shredded to particles
Physical destruction of drives down to compliance-grade particles, for both magnetic and SSD media.
- 3
Certificate of Destruction
You receive a serialized inventory report and a Certificate of Destruction covering every drive.
Who Needs Hard Drive Shredding
Any organization that stores regulated or confidential data, which is most of them. These are the buyers we hear from most across Boston and New England.
Healthcare
Patient records on old drives fall under HIPAA. Shredding with serial-level records helps you show they were destroyed.
Financial services
Account and card data demands proof of destruction your auditors and examiners will accept.
Government & defense
A documented chain of custody from your floor to the shredder.
Wondering whether HIPAA requires hard drive destruction? We answer that in our FAQ.
Documentation built for the standards your auditors work under
Serialized inventories and Certificates of Destruction give your team the records these frameworks ask for.
Cybersecurity standards
- ISO/IEC 27001
- SOC 1
- SOC 2
- PCI-DSS
- NIST 800-53
- NIST 800-171
- TISAX
- CMMC
- ISO/IEC 22301
Policy standards
- GDPR
- HIPAA
- CCPA
- ISO/IEC 27701
- APEC
- HDS
We operate in full alignment with industry-leading disposition standards. To ensure fully auditable responsible recycling, we partner with Colt Recycling—an R2v3 and ISO 9001/14001/45001 certified facility—for all downstream processing.
Schedule Hard Drive Shredding
Tell us how many drives you have and where they are. We will come back with a pickup date and the certificates your auditors expect.