Is it really worth your time to dismantle a hard drive? I don't think it is even profitable to remove the boards. I think your better off selling them whole and spending your time doing something that will make you more money.
I did an experiment with hard drives. I piled up 12 pounds of hard drives on the scale. 12.4 to be exact. Took off the boards and only got 1 pound of boards.
At ARCOA's current price on hard drives with boards is $1.18/pound. That would be $14.16 (12 X $1.18) for them whole.
ARCOA is currently paying $.42 for hard drives without the boards. That would be $4.62 (11 X $.42) and the boards are fetching $10.20. So the total if I broke them down and sold the boards and the hard drives without boards I would end up with $14.82. Is it really worth my time to make and extra $.20 to take off the board?
If you spend your time tearing apart the drive what do I end up with then out of the 12 pounds of hard drives? 1 pound of boards ($10.20), maybe 8 pounds of clean aluminum if I'm lucky which at $.50 would come to $4.00, the magnets, not even a pound of copper and the platters. I don't think you can sell the aluminum at
scrap prices or even sell the platters and the magnets on
Ebay and pay for your time taking apart the drives.
I'm sure someone will disagree with me so fire away.
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