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Seagate Circularity Program
Authorized Reseller · Enterprise Pricing · Lifecycle Support
We build our hard drives to last. Give yours a second life.
Over 1.8 million hard drives and SSDs returned to service in FY2024 through repair, refurbishment, and recovery
Over 837,500 kilograms of e-waste prevented from entering landfills
Refurbishing and reusing drives cuts 275× more CO₂ emissions than recycling components alone
Up to $1.8 trillion in economic benefits from the circular economy by 2030 (Ellen MacArthur Foundation)
Sustainability Driven
What did the Seagate Circularity Program return to service in FY2024?
Today's linear "take-make-waste" consumption model is unsustainable. In FY2024, we returned over 1.8 million hard drives and solid-state drives (SSD) back to service through repair, refurbishment, component extraction, and material recovery, helping to:
Transitioning to a circular drive economy prevents additional e-waste from entering landfills, contributing to a more sustainable IT ecosystem.
Refurbishing and reusing hard drives cuts 275 times more CO₂ emissions than recycling their components alone. (Source: Science Direct)
Reducing drive production means less energy consumption, resource extraction, and greenhouse emissions. (Source: Ellen MacArthur Foundation)
Why will 394ZB of data by 2028 force a circular drive economy?
To meet skyrocketing demand, industry players must rethink their data management infrastructure and take responsible measures that support a sustainable data economy.
That's why we're scaling the Seagate Circularity Program to be global. By engaging our entire ecosystem of technology stakeholders, we can elevate the industry's overall sustainability commitment. (Source: IDC Worldwide Global DataSphere Forecast 2024-2028; May 2024, IDC #US52076424.)
Circularity Driven
How does the Seagate Circularity Program extend drive life?
Enabling the secure reuse of storage hardware with self-encrypting drives and instant secure erase (ISE).
Extending product life through repair, refurbishment, parts extraction, and materials recovery.
Placing refurbished drives back into the market and reusing materials cuts e-waste and helps conserve finite resources.
Treasure, Not Trash
Extending the life of your hard drive helps extend the planet's life, too.
In 2022, Seagate helped found the Circular Drive Initiative (CDI)—a collaboration with global leaders in digital storage, sustainability, and blockchain—which focuses on reducing e-waste by promoting and enabling the secure reuse of storage hardware.
Mindset Driven
Why stop shredding hard drives, and what replaces it?
Despite modern state-of-the-art sanitization techniques, data security remains the biggest concern in adopting drive circularity. This leads to widespread hard drive shredding, with over 200 million devices disposed yearly. We're enabling the circular economy by providing a trusted and certified level of erasure.
Seagate uses industry gold standard secure erase (IEEE 2883), bringing a trusted, certified level of data sanitization.
Certified sanitization of encryption keys ensures all drive data is completely removed—safely and efficiently.
Purge uses logical or physical techniques to wipe all data on addressable and non-addressable storage.
Build drive circularity into procurement
Secure reuse, factory-recertified drives, and higher-density deployments all reduce e-waste, embodied carbon and total cost of ownership. BlueAlly helps you build circular practices into your procurement and lifecycle planning—without compromising on data security.
We've developed a partnership with Seagate that lets us compete at the highest level on price and service. That translates into the widest range of in-stock products, fast shipping, and the advice of certified product experts—without the pain of premium pricing. If you need additional guidance in sourcing the right product, our team can bring you together with the presale engineering team.
Technology Driven
Seagate technologies for secure drive reuse
Seagate makes significant investments in the R&D of breakthrough technologies that extend our product's life cycles, provide better data durability and security, and help customers get the most value from their data.
Seagate Secure with SED technology and instant secure erase (ISE) ensures the secure redeployment of drives through self-encryption and cryptological erase.
Mozaic 3+™ is a hard drive platform that incorporates Seagate's unique implementation of HAMR to deliver mass-capacity storage at unprecedented areal densities of 3TB/disk and beyond.
Explore MozaicAutonomous Drive Regeneration (ADR) and Autonomic Distributed Allocation Protection Technology (ADAPT) self-heal internal systems—minimizing e-waste, downtime, maintenance, and human intervention by renewing errant drives in situ.
Seagate Factory Certification Process
We take the following steps to make sure our factory recertified products live up to the Seagate quality standards:
Overwrite data when applicable, following the Data Overwriting Process for Returned Products.
Confirm the product meets Seagate factory performance standards.
Apply factory certification (or recertification, as applicable) labeling.
More on Seagate circularity and sustainability
Check out these additional links for related Seagate programs and solutions.
Circularity Program: frequently asked questions
How Seagate's circularity practices work and how BlueAlly can help you adopt them.
Today's linear "take-make-waste" consumption model is unsustainable. The Seagate Circularity Program returns hard drives and solid-state drives back to service through repair, refurbishment, component extraction, and material recovery. In FY2024, Seagate returned over 1.8 million hard drives and SSDs back to service, helping to reduce over 837,500 kilograms of e-waste and enable a sustainable datasphere through drive circularity.
Refurbishing and reusing hard drives cuts 275 times more CO₂ emissions than recycling their components alone. Reducing drive production means less energy consumption, resource extraction, and greenhouse emissions. Transitioning to a circular drive economy prevents additional e-waste from entering landfills, contributing to a more sustainable IT ecosystem — and the circular economy could generate up to $1.8 trillion in economic benefits by 2030.
Data security is the biggest concern in adopting drive circularity, which leads to widespread hard drive shredding, with over 200 million devices disposed yearly. Seagate uses the industry gold standard secure erase (IEEE 2883), bringing a trusted, certified level of data sanitization. Cryptographic erase certifies sanitization of encryption keys so all drive data is completely removed, and Purge uses logical or physical techniques to wipe all data on addressable and non-addressable storage.
In 2022, Seagate helped found the Circular Drive Initiative (CDI) — a collaboration with global leaders in digital storage, sustainability, and blockchain — which focuses on reducing e-waste by promoting and enabling the secure reuse of storage hardware.
Seagate Secure with SED technology and Instant Secure Erase (ISE) ensures secure redeployment through self-encryption and cryptological erase. Autonomous Drive Regeneration (ADR) and Autonomic Distributed Allocation Protection Technology (ADAPT) self-heal internal systems, minimizing e-waste, downtime, maintenance, and human intervention by renewing errant drives in situ.
BlueAlly is an authorized Seagate reseller. We help enterprises adopt circular storage practices — planning secure drive reuse, factory-recertified procurement, and higher-density deployments that reduce e-waste, embodied carbon and total cost of ownership.
The economics of drive circularity
Sustainable companies invest now to save even more in the future. Discover the economic benefits of the Seagate Circularity Program with a BlueAlly solution architect—and build secure, circular practices into your storage lifecycle.
Secure drive reuse & sanitization planning
Factory-recertified procurement
E-waste, embodied-carbon & TCO reduction
Flexible procurement — CapEx or OpEx
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