Price to pay for towers?

I'd b all over it at that price. Good luck!

Yep jump on it. 73, Mike

yes, 50c per tower minus HDD. MB, finger boards, and MB/CPU in them. Some have ram, some don't. I figure just the heat sink alone would cover the 50c cost. Rest is profit. I asked about laptops, they said they keep them for parts. Ill talk with them in person Monday. I have another shop to pick up from Monday also.

Can you do a 'onsite destruction of the HDD'? Like, use a hammer and bash it in front of them....

The Ali in a hard drive is worth good money, technically its 'Extrustion' if its high pressure diecast, extrusion if its extruded, cast if its older/silvery/obviously cast Ali.

Also there's the board on it, very high grade/just good 'ol high grade, but a bonus.
Once you have taken the board off, unless that individual boards mated back to that individual HDD, its not likely to go again, sometimes a exact replacement board will work for a while for data recovery, but not long-term.

However, after the HDD has been bashed with a hammer and the platters bent, there's no way to recover the data unless its for forensics, where all they need is proof that a certain bit of information on it could not have come from anywhere else. Not the actual data.

The magnets, some electric motors, the arms got Gold wire tracing from what I'm told and a big bucket of them is worth $$. A bit of Stainless steel sometimes in the covers, sometimes two sheets, one stainless, one steel, glued together.

Here's my hard drive destruction system. No-one that's ever seen it in action has ever doubted its efficacy or had any concern that their data wasn't well & truly destroyed.

I actually bought it over 25 years ago when I lived in Colorado & was pursuing a more geological gold recovery past-time.

https://www.amazon.com/Estwing-E30-L...ds=rock+hammer

Look into better than scrap sale on that water cooler and look up those graphics cards. You might be surprised

Good score !!!

If you don't have time for resale, maybe find someone in your town that does and you can drop off and split profits. I have deals with several people in town for reselling things that I have no time or knowledge to mess with.

50 cents is a great price. I try not to pay, but I have several shops that I paid for material when I started and I still do, but not as much as when I started. I now offer free data destruction and that gets me in a whole lot of doors. You may be able to keep getting computers from this company, but what happens when someone comes along and offers on sight hard drive crushing for free?

Figure out a way to do that. And not just by swinging a hammer. Granted the hammer will do the job, but when I lay my leverage crusher on the tailgate of my truck and just bust them up in seconds each, it goes a long way.

Originally Posted by parrothead

50 cents is a great price. I try not to pay, but I have several shops that I paid for material when I started and I still do, but not as much as when I started. I now offer free data destruction and that gets me in a whole lot of doors. You may be able to keep getting computers from this company, but what happens when someone comes along and offers on sight hard drive crushing for free?

Figure out a way to do that. And not just by swinging a hammer. Granted the hammer will do the job, but when I lay my leverage crusher on the tailgate of my truck and just bust them up in seconds each, it goes a long way.

My hammer does do the job, but you're right... it's not going to cut it with any real companies.

Would you mind posting model/specs/pricing/source of your HD crusher?

An investment like that is probably my next logical step.

THANKS!