Destruction of Hard Drives
All hard drives collected from campus are placed in our designated hard drive bin, which will be taken by our certified e-Waste recycler to be destroyed in bulk. Bulk destruction is free.
Hard Drives can also be certifiably destroyed and tracked individually. Certified destruction is performed by the contracted eWaste vendor, CEAR at the following rate:
- $500 for the first hour.
- $400 per each subsequent hour, charged in 15 minute increments.
- $1 per unit for logging hard drive removal and destruction.
- There will be a pickup fee of $480 + fuel surcharge to send a NAID certified driver.
- CEAR will also add a 3.5% credit card processing fee to the invoice total.
All certified destruction of hard drives will be recharged to the customer by UC Berkleey Surplus.
Request for certified hard drive destruction must be made in advance with ucsurplus@berkeley.edu and customers must clearly identify which computers and/or other hard drive containing units must have the hard drive removed and sent for certified destruction.
- Identification includes clear and conspicuous marking on the unit that the hard drive must be certifiably destroyed.
- UC Berkeley Surplus shall not be responsible for the vendor's failing to certifiably destroy any hard drive where there is no conspicuous marking on the unit.