Maxicom buys used and decommissioned enterprise storage across Singapore and Malaysia — Dell EMC, NetApp, Pure Storage, HPE and more, plus enterprise SSDs and HDDs by the tray. Storage is where data-security stakes are highest and recoverable value is easiest to overlook: controllers, shelves and especially enterprise drives hold real secondary-market value. We recover it, destroy your data to NIST 800-88, and pay in SGD.
Retiring storage is the moment where a data-protection mistake is most expensive and the recoverable value is most often missed. Arrays are full of drives — enterprise SAS, SATA and NVMe SSDs and HDDs — that carry both sensitive data and genuine resale value, alongside controllers and cache modules worth recovering. In Singapore's financial sector, where MAS-regulated firms run large, tightly governed storage estates, and across Malaysia's growing data-centre base, storage refreshes are frequent and the disposal bar is high. We meet that bar — certified destruction on a chain of custody — and pay you for what's inside instead of charging to shred it.
Platform, generation and drive population set the price. A sample of what we actively buy:
Unity and PowerStore, PowerVault, the older VNX line, and Isilon/PowerScale scale-out — the arrays at the centre of many Singapore enterprise and finance estates. Controllers, cache and especially the populated drive shelves carry real secondary value once the data is destroyed. We de-rack whole arrays or take loose shelves, and every drive is sanitised or destroyed with a certificate first.
FAS and AFF systems, E-Series, and the disk shelves that hang off them are common supply from regional data-centre refreshes. The flash and disk inside holds value that a shredder-only recycler simply crushes. Send the model and shelf or drive counts and we price the platform and the media together.
FlashArray //X and //C and FlashBlade are increasingly appearing in refresh cycles, and their flash modules and controllers have a genuine secondary market. We buy them whole, wipe or destroy the media to standard, and grade the rest on demand. Include the model and capacity in your list.
Nimble, 3PAR, Primera, the newer Alletra line and MSA entry arrays turn over steadily across the region's mid-market and enterprise estates. We take controllers, shelves and drives, destroy the data with a certificate, and recover the value inside. Mixed-vendor storage rooms are one deal.
Loose enterprise SAS, SATA and NVMe SSDs and HDDs by the tray are strong, clean supply — this is where much of the value and all of the data risk sit. Every drive is sanitised to NIST 800-88 or IEEE 2883, or physically destroyed where policy requires, before anything is resold. Send counts, capacities and interface types.
Storage controllers, HBAs, cache and NVRAM modules and other field-replaceable parts carry spares-market value well beyond scrap. We recover them from decommissioned arrays and price on demand. Faulty controllers still have component value — tell us what you know.
vSAN and other HCI storage nodes blur the line between server and array, and we handle them either way: destroy the data, grade the CPUs, memory and drives, and price the node whole. Whole clusters retired in a consolidation are welcome as a single lot.
Enterprise backup hardware — LTO drives and tape libraries — still has a market among organisations maintaining long-retention estates. Where present in a storage clear-out we take it too and handle any media securely. Include it in your inventory so we can price the full lot.
Enterprise storage is valued on two things at once: the recoverable value of its drives, controllers and shelves on the secondary market, and — just as important — the cost and risk it removes by having the data destroyed to standard for you. A populated all-flash array is worth far more than an empty controller pair, and enterprise SSDs in volume are worth many times their scrap weight, but nothing is resold until every drive is sanitised or destroyed with a certificate. Platform, generation, drive population and condition set the figure.
Send the array models and drive counts — capacities and interface types help — tell us your data-destruction requirement (wipe, physical destruction, on-site or witnessed), and we return a written offer in SGD alongside a destruction plan your risk team and auditor can sign off.
Singapore's status as a regional financial and data hub means storage disposal here is held to a high standard — data residency, auditability and certified destruction are non-negotiable for banks, insurers and their technology partners. Malaysia's expanding data-centre sector adds volume. We built our storage process around that reality: destroy first, document everything, then recover and pay. It's disposal that satisfies your risk team and your finance team at once.
| Scrap dealer | Shredder-only | Maxicom | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Do you get paid? | Metal weight | No — you pay | Cash value in SGD |
| Drives | Not securely handled | Shredded, unpaid | Wiped or destroyed + certificate |
| Data evidence | None | Basic | Certificate + chain of custody |
| On-site option | No | Rarely | De-rack & remove available |
| Collection | You deliver | For a fee | Free in Singapore; arranged in Malaysia |
Every data-bearing drive is sanitised to NIST 800-88 (HDD) and IEEE 2883-2022 (SSD/NVMe) with a certificate of destruction, or physically destroyed through a vetted partner where your policy requires it — before anything is resold. For sensitive estates we support on-site destruction and witnessed destruction, on a chain of custody that documents every serial number.
Every data-bearing drive is sanitised to NIST SP 800-88 Rev. 1 (HDD) and IEEE 2883-2022 (SSD/NVMe), with a certificate of destruction, on a documented chain of custody. Drives that can't be wiped are physically destroyed through a vetted partner. Certified destruction is what makes buyback safe under Singapore's PDPA and Malaysia's PDPA — so it's included in the deal, not billed as an extra.
Offices and corporates clearing space · IT teams running a refresh · data centres decommissioning across Singapore and the Johor/Iskandar corridor · banks, healthcare and government needing certified data destruction · schools and universities · and resellers, distributors, ITADs and MSPs clearing surplus and client stock. One unit or a warehouse — the process is the same, and the paperwork always holds up.
Send your array models or drive counts and we'll come back with a written SGD offer and a data-destruction plan.
Get my quoteMaxicom Singapore Pte Ltd is an independent IT buyback and recycling company based at 51 Goldhill Plaza, Singapore, serving businesses across Singapore and Malaysia. We recover the value inside retired business IT, destroy data to NIST 800-88 and IEEE 2883, and route reusable hardware back into service — paying businesses for equipment that other recyclers charge to take.
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