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UWC-U.2

U.2 Enterprise NVMe Wipe Station

Purpose-built for datacenter U.2 drives — 20 wiped and certified in under five minutes.

RECORD BY YOUR WIPE SUITE AIR-GAP CAPABLE DISKLESS BY DESIGN
20 enterprise U.2 slots
< 5 min full batch
< 60 sec crypto-erase per drive
Native NVMe via SFF-8639
Full specifications Purchase orders only — nothing charges until you sign the quote.
UWC-U.2 — U.2 Enterprise NVMe Wipe Station
DRIVE SANITIZATION
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SPECIFICATIONS

Built to these numbers.

Published figures for the UWC-U.2. Detailed engineering drawings, electrical schedules and site-prep requirements are issued with the quote.

EXPANDED SPEC TABLE

Weight, thermal load, ingress rating, fabric topology and rail dimensions will land here once engineering signs off the published sheet.

CAPACITY
20 enterprise U.2 slots
BATCH TIME
< 5 min full batch
PER DRIVE
< 60 sec crypto-erase per drive
INTERFACE
Native NVMe via SFF-8639
CUSTODY MODEL
Group B — record issued by your wipe suite
Site requirements. Several machines need dedicated 208–240 V circuits that most floors do not already have. Apex supplies a Site Requirements sheet covering electrical circuits, receptacle types and heat load — available on request.
HOW IT WORKS

Seat, boot, load, run, certify.

01
Position & power

A benchtop station rather than a floor install: set it down and connect power. Nothing about the room has to change.

02
Boot your wipe environment

Power on: the station PXE-boots your licensed wipe suite from your facility server in one to two minutes. No network at the site? Insert the standalone boot USB at the front-panel port and run fully air-gapped — certificates export the same way.

03
Tool-less slot loading

20 enterprise U.2 slots — seated by hand and detected as each drive goes in. No caddies, no adapters, no sorting.

04
Run the job from one console

From one console, confirm the count, select the standard — NIST SP 800-88 Rev. 2 Purge by cryptographic erase — enter the operator ID and job reference, and start. A full batch finishes in under five minutes, under 60 seconds per drive.

05
Certify & unload

When the batch completes, export per-drive certificates (PDF) or the batch CSV from your wipe suite. Passing drives release to the wiped bin; any failure shows red and goes straight into the lockable quarantine bin, logged by serial and routed to destruction.

THE RECORD

Your wipe suite issues the certificate.

On the UWC-U.2, the customer’s PXE wipe suite — WipeOS or third-party — performs the sanitization and issues the certificate. Apex provides the platform it runs on, not the record.

WHAT APEX PROVIDES
The platform: bays, fabric, power and thermal capacity for the full run
Physical custody controls — quarantine bin, locks and seals
The operating environment, air-gap capable and diskless by design
A machine that stays out of the data path
WHAT YOUR WIPE SUITE PROVIDES
The sanitization itself, to your licensed configuration
The per-device certificate and the custody record behind it
The standards claim carried on that certificate
Your existing reporting, unchanged
Apex never represents these certificates as its own. See the full custody model
STANDARDS

What this machine supports.

Achieved by your PXE wipe software (WipeOS or 3rd-party) running on this machine.

NIST SP 800-88 Rev. 2 — Purge (cryptographic erase)
Aligned to IEEE 2883-2022
ADD-ONS, KITS & DOCUMENTS

Everything that ships around the machine.

These are being finalized for the UWC-U.2. Ask us for current availability and we'll send what exists today.

Add-ons
COMING SOON

Optional modules and expansions that extend what the machine handles.

Capacity and bay expansions
Interface and adapter options
Integration and networking options
Ask about add-ons
Maintenance kits
COMING SOON

Consumables and field-replaceable parts to keep a unit in service.

Wear and consumable parts
Cable and connector replacements
Recommended spares package
Ask about kits
Documents
COMING SOON

Published PDFs for evaluation, procurement and installation.

Specification sheet (PDF)
Site prep & power requirements
Operator manual
Request documents

Spec a UWC-U.2 for your floor.

Tell us your volume and asset mix and we'll confirm power, footprint and lead time. Fleet bundles are available across all 19 systems.

Purchase orders only — nothing is charged until you sign the quote. Talk to us first