Disassembling hard drives - worth it?

I find that it does a few things for me.

1. The extra alum gets me to the 250 pound minimum to receive 3 extra cents a pound faster
2. Gives me something to do while watching a TV show. I take in 10 at a time and in 1 hour will have them all taken apart. This is only half paying attention too.
3. I get small bits of copper
4. When i finally get around to it i should make a decent killing on ebay with platters and magnets. I have like 25 pounds of platters so far.

Originally Posted by drozenski

When i finally get around to it i should make a decent killing on ebay with platters and magnets. I have like 25 pounds of platters so far.

I would be careful selling platters on ebay, unless the disk has been wiped clean or made unusable any info written on the disk is still there. Tech savy people with unscrupulous intentions could very easily get whatevers on the disk.
I break them down, not because its profitable it assures the customer and myself that data is not passed on. Besides that we do not know what some people have done with their computers, would really s**k to get accused of something we did not have anything to do with.

Originally Posted by bejak

I would be careful selling platters on ebay, unless the disk has been wiped clean or made unusable any info written on the disk is still there. Tech savy people with unscrupulous intentions could very easily get whatevers on the disk.
I break them down, not because its profitable it assures the customer and myself that data is not passed on. Besides that we do not know what some people have done with their computers, would really s**k to get accused of something we did not have anything to do with.

Mine go through a degausser. They are fully demagnetized.