Used hard drives have little or no value, they take up space, and could prove to be a liability. The best way to protect your sensitive data is to physically destroy the drives by shredding.
The AES Tape Media Buy Back program enables you to turn the time consuming and expensive process of media destruction into a profitable solution for your company. AES has been at the forefront of the data center products and service business for over 30 years. AES has created our own line of network furniture, tape storage products,  mobile systems, tape barcode labels, and barcode tracking software products. Our services encompass on-site and off-site tape destruction, tape media buyback, tape degaussing and eradication, data center cleaning, media initialization, conversion services, label application and removal, tape library audits and tape library relocations.