SSD / HDD Drive Buyback

Models and families covered

Enterprise HDD — Seagate Exos, WD Ultrastar/Gold, Toshiba MG-series. SAS / NL-SAS / SATA. Capacities 1TB through 30TB+. Enterprise SSD — Samsung PM-series, Micron 7000-series, Intel/Solidigm D-series, Kioxia CD-series, WD SN-series. SATA / SAS / NVMe / U.2. Capacities 480GB through 30.72TB.

Drive sanitisation policy by media type

HDD (working) → NIST SP 800-88 Rev. 1 Purge via firmware-verified multi-pass overwrite with cryptographic verification. NVMe SSD → IEEE 2883-2022 firmware Sanitize via NVMe Sanitize command. SAS / SATA SSD → IEEE 2883-2022 firmware Sanitize via SCSI Sanitize / ATA Sanitize. Self-encrypting drives → Cryptographic Erase via the appropriate management protocol. Per-drive Certificate of Destruction issued naming the standard, the command, and the verification response.

Pricing reference points

Quote per-drive against the live secondary market. Reference: enterprise SAS HDD 8TB at end of 5-year cycle clears at modest refurb pricing; enterprise NVMe SSD 7.68TB at end of 3-year cycle clears at firmer refurb pricing because the NVMe install base is smaller and the buyer pool is more concentrated. Send a SKU-level inventory (vendor, model, capacity, condition); written quote within per engagement for steady-state SKUs.

Wipe-failure escalation

Drives that fail Purge verification (any reason — media defect, controller failure, firmware bug) are routed to physical destruction. HDDs: 6mm or 2mm shred. SSDs: 0.5mm disintegration. The wipe-failure mode and the subsequent destruction method are both documented on the per-drive certificate so the auditor sees the complete trail.

Settlement and engagement mechanics

Settlement is in your reporting currency (CAD) against your purchase order, line-item per asset, payment terms agreed in the SOW. Programme engagements run on milestone-based settlement against the rolling pickup schedule with monthly true-up. Cross-border engagements (where the asset routes between Maxicom operating regions) are consolidated to your reporting-currency entity through internal Maxicom inter-company arrangements; the customer-facing transaction is single-currency. The SOW is structured per the Maxicom legal entity that contracts with you (Maxicom UAE, Maxicom India, Maxicom Singapore, Maxicom Canada, Maxicom Hong Kong); GST / VAT / HST / withholding-tax treatment is handled per local tax law. Quote validity follows the asset class — 14 days for steady-state enterprise hardware, 5 business days for AI accelerators where the secondary market re-prices weekly, 30 days for memory and components. We re-quote without penalty where the validity has lapsed and the customer is ready to transact.

Audit defensibility and certificate format

Every asset routed through this engagement receives a per-asset Certificate of Destruction with eleven required fields: serial number, make/model/capacity, data classification at retirement, sanitisation method (Clear/Purge/Destroy under NIST SP 800-88 Rev. 1, with the specific technique cited), particle size or field strength or encryption algorithm where applicable, sanitisation tool + version + verification response, UTC timestamp + facility location, operator name + ID + signature, witness signature where present, chain-of-custody reference back to the pickup manifest, and the destruction reason where Reuse-First triage was overridden. Certificates are admissible against OSFI B-13, PIPEDA, NIST SP 800-88 Rev. 1, IEEE 2883-2022, and (where contractually specified) DoD 5220.22-M and NAID-grade Protocol — one certificate covers all simultaneously. Certificate retention is 7 years default, 8+ years for BFSI engagements, longer where the master service agreement specifies.

Cross-border resale routing under NDA

Where local market depth in Canada cannot absorb the retiring volume at fair refurb pricing, working assets route cross-border through Maxicom's trader-channel network — MENA → ASEAN, IND → ASEAN + MENA, CA → US sub-tier markets and ASEAN, SG → MENA + ASEAN. The routing decision is made per asset-class at engagement scoping; the customer sees the routing on the SOW and can opt out where channel-respect or sovereign-data-residency rules require. NDA discipline is standard. Surplus does not return to your own market's primary channel without explicit consent. Export classification (US BIS for AI accelerators; equivalent local regimes for other restricted-class hardware) is handled before the trade closes; restricted-party screening is part of every cross-border transaction.

Reuse-First disposition KPIs reported back to you

Programme-level engagements receive quarterly business reviews covering: total tonnage processed, Reuse-First reuse rate (% refurbished and redeployed vs % destroyed by media class), residual value recovered in CAD, embodied-carbon-recovered estimate (CO₂e avoided by keeping working assets in service rather than replacing them with newly-manufactured hardware), diversion-from-landfill percentage, material-recovery breakdown, and exception reporting. The reporting format is mapped to your sustainability reporting framework — CSRD ESRS E5, ISSB IFRS S1/S2, BRSR Principle 6, GRI 301/305/306, SASB IT services standards. Single-event engagements receive the same data as a per-engagement summary attached to the consolidated certificate. The reuse-rate metric is the most informative KPI: our blended cohort typically runs around two-thirds reuse rate (indicative); programme engagements typically improve year-over-year as the engagement learns the asset mix.

Key models in our pipeline

Seagate Exos 18TB · 16TB · WD Ultrastar 22TB · 18TB · Samsung PM1735 · PM9A3 · Micron 7450 PRO · Intel D7-P5520 · Solidigm D5-P5316 · Kioxia CD7 · WD SN840