Hard drive shredding you can put in front of an auditor.
On-site and off-site hard drive destruction across all sectors, including UAE banks, hospitals, government bodies, enterprise IT and even home shredding. Every drive is reduced to either 6 mm or 10mm particles under camera, logged by serial number, and closed with a Certificate of Destruction the next working day.
The only true deletion is shredding.
Modern drives leave residual sectors, remapped blocks and firmware caches that simply deleting or formatting won't remove. For regulated data in the UAE, only physical destruction removes the risk — and produces the audit trail regulators expect.
Deleted is not destroyed.
Quick format and even DoD-style overwrite passes can leave recoverable fragments on modern SSDs, hybrid drives and enterprise SAS disks. Shredding reduces platters and NAND to particles too small to reconstruct.
UAE PDPL, DIFC, ADGM.
Federal Decree-Law No. 45 of 2021 and the DIFC and ADGM data protection regulations require verifiable destruction of personal data at end of life. Certificates naming each serial number support audits.
Two signatures, one shred.
Drives are logged at pickup, sealed, matched at the shredder, and time-stamped on destruction. Your compliance officer sees the same audit trail we do — from cabinet to particle.
A chain of custody that survives the shredder.
Five steps between the moment your drive leaves its cabinet and the moment your certificate arrives. Every step is timestamped, signed, and — where you request it — recorded on camera.
Booking & scope
You share drive count, media types and site. We return a same-day quote, a proposed date, and — for on-site jobs — the parking footprint the mobile shredder needs.
Collection under seal
GPS-tracked, CCTV monitored vehicle, tamper-evident bins. Every drive can be scanned by serial number as it enters the vehicle; the seal number is date and time-stamped.
Shred, on-site or at facility
On-site: mobile shredder arrives at your location, witness the shredding process in person or through our vehicle's CCTV broadcast. Off-site: sealed units are opened only inside our CCTV-monitored secure destruction location.
Serial reconciliation
Post-shred, destroyed serial numbers are reconciled against the pickup manifest. Any discrepancy — a mis-scan, a missed drive — is flagged before the report is issued.
Certificate & recycling
You receive a Certificate of Destruction listing every serial, the operator, the shred class, and the date. Metal and rare-earth fragments are downstream-recycled through a licensed UAE processor.
Hard drives first — and everything alongside them.
The mobile shredder that shreds a 3.5″ enterprise disk in eight seconds handles the rest of the media in the same cabinet.
HDDs
2.5″, 3.5″, SAS, SATA, enterprise nearline, laptop drives, external USB disks.
SSDs & NVMe
SATA SSDs, M.2, U.2, enterprise NVMe cards. Cut to 6 mm .
Backup tapes
LTO 1 through LTO 9, DLT, DDS. Cassettes shredded whole; tape reduced to confetti.
Phones & tablets
Retired corporate mobiles, tablets, USB flash, SD cards, smartcards.
The document your auditor actually asks for.
Issued within " next working day" of destruction. Every serial number, every operator, every shred class printed against a tamper-evident reference. Kept on file with us for seven years, retrievable by client reference or by any single serial number
- Serial-level inventory of every drive destroyed
- DIN 66399 class and NIST SP 800-88 mapping
- Named operator, witness and destruction timestamp
- Downstream recycler and metal recovery weight
- PDF and countersigned hard copy on request
| Drive type | Capacity | Qty |
|---|---|---|
| M.2 NVMe SSD | 1TB | 8 |
| M.2 NVMe SSD | 1TB | 23 |
| M.2 NVMe SSD | 2TB | 15 |
| M.2 NVMe SSD | 4TB | 9 |
| 2.5" SATA SSD | 500GB | 21 |
| 2.5" SATA SSD | 500GB | 45 |
| 3.5" Desktop HDD | 2TB | 42 |
| 3.5" Desktop HDD | 4TB | 10 |
| 3.5" Desktop HDD | 8TB | 12 |
| 2.5" Laptop HDD | 2TB | 5 |
| External Portable SSD | 1TB | 14 |
Location: Dubai, UAE
Service Date: ##.##.####
Order No.: #####
Material Description:
Total Quantity: ###
Two ways to shred. Same standard on the certificate.
Highly regulated clients tend to prefer on-site: drives never leave the building. Bulk one-off jobs are usually cheaper off-site — sealed transport, same-day destruction at our secure facility.
On-site shredding
A dedicated mobile shredder arrives at your facility. Drives are destroyed in your loading bay, in view of your compliance officer, and never leave your address until they are particles.
- Where
- Your site, anywhere in the UAE
- Witness
- In Person- CCTV feed on request
- Volume
- 300 Per Hour
- Certificate
- Issued by next working day
- Cost basis
- Per visit + per drive
Facility shredding
Sealed, GPS-tracked collection to our CCTV covered Secure Facility. Same shredding standard using the same dedicated mobile shredder, ideal for customer access constraints.
- Where
- ShredIt Secure Faculty , Dubai, UAE
- Witness
- CCTV footage streamed on request
- Volume
- Any size — from a single drive up
- Certificate
- Issued by next working day
- Cost basis
- Per drive · volume tiers
The questions procurement asks first.
Everything else — pricing sheets, sample certificates, insurance schedule, a walk of our destruction floor — on request.
Can we watch the destruction?
Yes — for on-site work, the mobile shredder has an observation window at your loading bay. For off-site work, you can attend the destruction floor in Ras al Khor, or we stream the CCTV feed of your batch to you live.
What happens to the shredded material?
Ferrous, aluminium and rare-earth fragments are separated and passed to a licensed UAE downstream recycler; recovery weights are recorded on your certificate for your ESG reporting. No shredded material is landfilled.
Are we insured for loss in transit?
Yes. Public liability AED 10 m; professional indemnity AED 5 m; specific cover for data-in-transit against the manifested serial list. Certificates of insurance provided as part of the vendor onboarding pack.
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