What's your old gear worth?

Buyback valuations are driven by real-time secondary wholesale market demand across global enterprise buyers. Pricing factors include processor generation (e.g., Intel Xeon 3rd/4th/5th Gen, AMD EPYC 7003/9004), memory density (DDR4 vs. DDR5 ECC RDIMMs), storage health and interface (NVMe U.2/U.3 vs. SATA), cosmetic grade, and operational test results. CTS typically operates on a transparent consignment or direct-purchase revenue share (often 70% customer return), maximizing net dollars back to your IT budget.

Data center decommissioning involves labor, de-racking, packaging, secure transport, cable abatement, and certified data sanitization. When retired compute, GPU clusters, and high-density memory retain substantial market value, the remarketing proceeds directly offset project costs on your final settlement invoice. On modern server fleets, buyback values frequently exceed total service fees, resulting in a net cash payout via wire transfer.

Data security takes absolute priority over hardware value. All storage media (HDDs, enterprise SSDs, and NVMe drives) slated for resale undergo certified NIST SP 800-88 Rev. 1 Purge sanitization (cryptographic erase or ATA/NVMe Sanitize) with 100% sector verification. Failed, unreadable, or classified media is mechanically shredded to NSA specifications (≤2mm for SSDs). Every asset is accounted for on an itemized Certificate of Destruction prior to resale.

In 2026, the highest-demand secondary assets are AI accelerators and GPU-equipped servers (NVIDIA H100, A100, L40S), high-capacity DDR5 and DDR4 ECC registered server memory, enterprise U.2/U.3 NVMe SSDs (3.84TB and above), current-generation 1U/2U compute nodes, and 100G/400G spine-leaf networking switches (Arista, Cisco Nexus).

For outright buyback purchases, pricing is finalized upon inventory manifest audit, and payment terms typically disburse within 15 to 30 days of receipt and testing. For consignment remarketing arrangements, monthly transparent disbursement reports detail gross sale price, refurbishment deductions, net revenue share, and serial-level disposition.

Yes. CTS provides nationwide white-glove field services across North America. Our certified technician crews handle on-site de-racking, component harvesting, anti-static palletizing, and transport via dedicated, GPS-monitored air-ride trailers secured with tamper-evident serialized bolt seals.

Enterprise retirements almost always include a mix of valuable systems and obsolete or non-functioning equipment. CTS handles the entire lot under a single contract: remarketable systems are sanitized and resold, while obsolete equipment, cabling, and failed chassis are processed through certified R2v3 and e-Stewards downstream recycling streams under a zero-landfill policy.

Yes. CTS routinely coordinates simultaneous hardware retirements across multiple regional data centers, colocation facilities, and corporate enterprise campuses, consolidating audit manifests and financial settlements into a unified corporate compliance dashboard.