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Bootstrap
Penny Collector Member
USA
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 Posted - 03/13/2010 : 12:55:44
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I have come into posession of quite a few hard drives.
I was wondering if there is anything inside the hard drives worth scrapping or are they pretty much worthless.
Thanks
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garnede
Penny Collector Member
USA
386 Posts |
Posted - 03/13/2010 : 12:59:17
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| I don't know about scrap, but they have rare earth magnets in them. I would be willing to buy a magnet if you want to sell one. There might be some gold in them too. |
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Kurr
1000+ Penny Miser Member
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natsb88
Administrator
USA
1850 Posts |
Posted - 03/13/2010 : 13:24:55
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| Cast aluminum frames (or machined aluminum if they're older), some machined aluminum components inside, really handy magnets, and the platters and circuit boards can be sold on eBay for PM recovery. There are steel bearings embedded in some of the parts inside, so pull them out to get clean aluminum prices at the scrap yard. You will most likely need two small Torx bits to disassemble. |
Nate
The Copper Cave
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natsb88
Administrator
USA
1850 Posts |
Posted - 03/13/2010 : 13:26:27
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Or throw them in a flat rate box and send them to me, and I'll trade you some shiny copper  |
Nate
The Copper Cave
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silversaddle1
Penny Pincher Member
USA
103 Posts |
Posted - 03/13/2010 : 17:40:58
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Whole hard drives are selling for between .65-80 cents per pound around here. You must leave the PCB on the drive to get that price. We sell the drives whole, but we crush them first to protect any data that still may be on the disk.
Yes you can strip them but I would call around first and get some scrap prices before going thru all the work.
Should you decide to strip them, go to any Do It Best hardware store and buy a micro torx screwdriver set. They are around 10 bucks for the set and will have every driver you need to strip the drives.
If you have any questions, ask me as I have scrapped 1000's of drives by hand in the past.
One other thing. Be careful if you do take apart as some of the drives hitting the scrap market now have glass platters in them and they shatter into millions of little pieces. That sucks! |
Edited by - silversaddle1 on 03/13/2010 17:42:26 |
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wavecrazed
Penny Sorter Member
USA
69 Posts |
Posted - 04/02/2010 : 22:14:43
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| You can also get a 50 security bit set at harbor freight tools for about 8 dollars. There is one bit that is missing though to take out the harddrive. You may want to get a platinum test kit to test the hardrive platter. |
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PennySaved
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
1720 Posts |
Posted - 04/06/2010 : 17:02:01
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| I picked up a bunch of these in the trash too. What is the least time consuming way of recycling these :-) |
SELLING COPPER PENNIES 1.4X FACE SHIPPED......“I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principles of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale” Thomas Jefferson |
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PennySaved
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
1720 Posts |
Posted - 04/06/2010 : 17:03:24
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| Actually I am wrong; I met to say I found a bunch of disk drives in the trash. You know where you would insert the floppy disk but they are not a part of the tower. Are these worth anything for scrap? |
SELLING COPPER PENNIES 1.4X FACE SHIPPED......“I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principles of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale” Thomas Jefferson |
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scrapman1077
Penny Sorter Member
USA
79 Posts |
Posted - 04/12/2010 : 15:24:53
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| Send me at least 40 lbs of hard drives and I will send you a shiny new 1 oz silver round! PM if your interested. |
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silversaddle1
Penny Pincher Member
USA
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Posted - 04/12/2010 : 16:01:32
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Originally posted by scrapman1077
Send me at least 40 lbs of hard drives and I will send you a shiny new 1 oz silver round! PM if your interested.
Yea, and what does that work out to per pound? |
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scrapman1077
Penny Sorter Member
USA
79 Posts |
Posted - 04/12/2010 : 16:42:48
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| .50 cent, the scrap value of the al. |
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