04/22/2026
It's Earth Day and Edgar just lost an insane amount of data.
His SAN server had a nice 7-8 year run but spontaneously gave up the ghost … and the manufacturer no longer supports it.
So he went to eBay hoping someone, somewhere, still had what he needed.
That happened to one of our buyers last week.
Edgar (name altered for privacy) found a unit we had, bought it from our Phoenix Solutions eBay store, dropped his drives into it …
… and recovered all. the. data!
He dm’d us overjoyed that what was lost was now found.
Edgar even offered to ship us their failed unit, just so it could be properly recycled.
In 15 years of recycling and selling on eBay, no one’s ever offered that.
This surfaces an often overlooked aspect to circularity.
It’s not only about extending the lifespan of tech.
Circularity makes what’s obsolete and discontinued still available to all the Edgar’s out there, in a bind.
ITAD services aim to keep as much as possible in use for as long as possible.
That’s the heartbeat of circularity.
Recycling is such a catch-all concept, and the significance of all that it stands for can be easily lost on us.
So know that when you say “yes” to electronics recycling you saying “yes” to circularity and Edgar’s saved data.
We’re so stoked for the happy ending (and hopefully Edgar gets some redundancy and backups in place, lol).
It’s moments like this make a rather labor intensive process so worth it.
Cheers to Earth Day & Edgar, circularity & recycling, data recovery & data redundancy!
