Hard Drives: what do you do? - Page 2

Originally Posted by scalemomma

hey, can you give me the info for your buyer? ive got hard drives to sell, without boards. i've got one 1000gb seagate,tested and works good, and i cant give the ****ed thing away on ebay!! ive listed it like four times and no hits.

If you do a search for your particular item and then click on "sold listings," you will see successful sales and what they sold for. Copy and paste the listing info for the one(s) that sold for the greatest price and try listing again. You will also know the price your drive is likely to sell for.



As for what I do, I have not sold any hard drives as escrap as of yet. I only have about three dozen and a few more boxes to break down. I figure this thread is interesting and may help me determine how I would like to go about selling them. As for ebay, I am not sure the 40 and 80 gb drives would sell even if they were working. As for the terabyte drive, I think that should go without much problem... perhaps it is priced a little high for an used drive.

I first offer to the customer to removal the hard drive so they can do what they would like with it. If there is still a hard drive in the computer I will remove the board and smash the rest and recycle as dirty aluminum. Lots of time and lots of screws to take apart for little benefit.

I also buy desktop hard drives.

I wouldn't be scrapping a 1TB drive just yet!

As for what I do, I sell some of the larger, working ones online, and use the other usable ones in machines I refurbish. I separate the dead and obsolete drives.

I test and sell the larger working SATA drives, I have a local buyer that buys all I can supply. Occasionally I also sell on ebay, 500GB or bigger usually sell for more than what my local buyer pays. Everything else goes whole to my scrap buyer. I get way too many and not enough time to break them all down.