Seagate Teams Up with eBay to Expand Hard Drive Circularity Program
The collaboration enables consumers to purchase recertified drives through an established retail platform
As a founding member of the Circular Drive Initiative—a partnership of global leaders in digital storage, data centers, sustainability, and blockchain collaborating to reduce e-waste—Seagate is committed to enabling the secure reuse of storage devices and reducing hard drive shredding. Hard drive shredding entails breaking down a hard drive into tiny pieces so that data cannot be recovered. As rare earth materials contained in those parts cannot be reused, hard drive shredding harms the environment and is not a sustainable practice.
Since data control remains the biggest obstacle to embracing hard drive circularity, Seagate brings a trusted level of data sanitization and comprehensive erasure to its factory-recertified drives. The sanitization and erasure practices prevent data recovery after decommissioning, adhering to industry standards such as IEEE 2883, NIST SP 800-88 Rev. 1, and ISO/IEC 27040:2015.
“Tens of millions of hard drives are still being shredded yearly, and we need to reduce the use of destructive sanitization methods,” said
In FY2023, Seagate extended the life of approximately 1.19 million hard drives and solid-state drives through its circularity program, preventing 553 metric tons of e-waste1. Seagate aims to minimize e-waste by placing quality hard drives back into service and extending their product lifecycles.
“eBay is proud to work with Seagate on this exciting partnership,” said
The new Seagate storefront on eBay offers various hard drive options that can be trusted because they are recertified by Seagate and come with a limited warranty. Seagate's factory-recertified drives can now be purchased directly through www.ebay.com/str/stxrecerthdd.
1Assuming each drive is an average weight of 465g
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