Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
BNC Services provides secure, professional onsite data erasure and physical destruction services so your business can safely dispose of IT equipment, stay compliant, and protect customers, employees, and your reputation.
About Our Services
BNC Services specializes in secure data erasure and physical destruction of hard drives, SSDs, and other data bearing devices for homeowners and businesses in the greater Philadelphia area.
Services typically include certified software wiping that follows industry standards and physical destruction options for drives that must be rendered completely unusable.
Most homeowners and businesses use data destruction for desktops, laptops, servers, external drives, and enterprise storage, along with mobile devices like tablets and smartphones that store sensitive data.
BNC Services is set up to work with common personal or business hardware so you can clear out homes, full offices, server rooms, or small batches of devices as needed.
Security and Compliance
When secure erasure software overwrites every sector of a drive to NIST or DoD style standards, the original information becomes practically impossible to reconstruct, even with forensic tools.
When a drive is physically destroyed by drilling, cutting, sanding or pulverizing, the platters are destroyed, making recovery impossible.
Many privacy and data‑protection rules require you to properly sanitize or destroy media at end of life so confidential data cannot leak or be stolen.
Using a professional data destruction provider with documented processes and certificates of destruction gives you clear proof that you handled retired equipment responsibly.
Reputable destruction services provide a serialized certificate of destruction or erasure report showing which drives were processed, when, and by what method.
BNC Services structures its service so that homeowners and businesses can keep these records for audits, internal policies, and client assurance.
Onsite vs. Offsite and Our Process
BNC Services specializes in Onsite data deletion and destruction. We will come to you and perform the service on your premises. Onsite service lets you or your team witness the process
For onsite erasure, technicians connect your drives or systems to specialized software that erases data to recognized standards and then generate reports for each asset.
For onsite destruction, we physically destroy the storage device on your premises.
No. We can if you choose, but the service can be done in our technicians vehicle.
We will make an appointment with you and perform the service at that time. There are times that we may need to come back to finish a service if there are multiple devices that need to be done. We will not take your storage devices with us to finish your project unless that is agreed upon prior to the service being performed.
Reporting and certificates are usually delivered shortly after completion so you can close out internal tickets and compliance records.
Why choose professional destruction (and BNC)
Simple deletion or formatting leaves most data intact on the media, which can often be recovered with readily available tools.
Secure erasure and physical destruction use validated methods designed specifically to prevent recovery, giving you a far stronger level of protection and peace of mind.
Unsecured boxes, closets, and storage rooms full of retired equipment create an ongoing risk of data exposure through loss, theft, or improper disposal.
By clearing out stored devices with a documented destruction process, you reduce liability, free up space, and show customers and regulators that you take data protection seriously.
Partnering with a focused local provider reduces your team’s workload, minimizes mistakes, and gives you a clear, repeatable process whenever you retire devices.
This helps protect customer trust, supports compliance, and lets your staff focus on higher value work while knowing sensitive data is being handled by a dedicated specialist.
Bringing data bearing devices to bulk electronics drop off or community day can leave your personal information exposed because those events focus on recycling the hardware, not professionally erasing the data first.
At large community events, devices are often collected in bulk, stacked, and later shipped or resold through complex e waste chains where drives may be tested, repaired, or harvested for parts, giving multiple people potential access to any data that was not securely wiped.
Studies of the e waste stream show that improperly recycled computers and drives can end up in unregulated facilities or secondary markets where data is actively mined and resold, meaning old emails, photos, financial records, and passwords can be recovered long after you “dropped it off.”
Pricing, Preparation and Scheduling
Data destruction is commonly priced per drive or per device, with volume discounts for larger batches and different rates depending on whether you choose erasure, physical destruction, or both.
We will gather information from you and quote you a firm price based on the information you give us. We do not change pricing if the info given to us is correct.
That’s simple. We will take it with us. We give you the option of keeping the destroyed storage device if you choose, or we can dispose of it. That is your choice.
Most homeowners or businesses identify which devices are ready for destruction, remove anything they plan to reuse (like power cords or accessories), and confirm internal approvals before scheduling.
BNC Services can then arrive prepared for the right quantities and device types, making the visit smoother and more efficient.
There are multiple options to do this. You can fill out the form with the required info on our website at bncservicespa.com. Or feel free to call us at 267-577-5880 and speak to one of our specialists to receive your quote.
Once you approve the quote, a convenient date is booked and you receive clear instructions so you or your team is ready on the day of service.