Follow one laptop from pickup to report: sealed and tracked by GPS, checked in by serial number, data destroyed to NIST standards, then resold or recycled, with every step in your report.
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Follow the Drive is episode 16 of The Crunch, CyberCrunch's series of 30-second animated ITAD explainers. Pickup to paper trail: what actually happens to your hard drive after the truck leaves. 30 seconds inside the certified ITAD process. CyberCrunch is an R2v3, NAID AAA, RIOS, and PA DEP certified IT asset disposition and data destruction provider headquartered in Greensburg, Pennsylvania, serving all 50 states.
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Transcript · the 30-second Short
Where does your laptop go after it leaves? If you can't trace it, you can't prove it. Let's follow a single laptop. It's picked up, sealed and tracked by GPS. Checked in by serial number. Its data is destroyed to NIST standards. Then resold or recycled. And every step lands in your report. Fully traced. Fully proven.
About this episode
The moment retired equipment leaves your dock, the question becomes custody. In a certified process, assets travel in sealed, tracked containers with signed transfer manifests — every handoff documented, every seal numbered.
At intake, each asset is scanned, photographed, and serialized into inventory, then reconciled against the outbound manifest so nothing disappears between your dock and the processing floor. Data-bearing media is sanitized to NIST 800-88 or physically destroyed, with verification at the device level.
What comes back to you is the point of the whole exercise: serialized certificates of destruction, settlement reporting on remarketed assets, recycling documentation, and a chain-of-custody record that survives any audit. The truck leaving is the beginning of the evidence, not the end of your visibility.
CYBERCRUNCH · NAID AAA · R2v3 · RIOS · PA DEP
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