So...looking back...

Originally Posted by JJinLV

tbh haven't been tracking recovery on towers with any detail lately but will perhaps do a little recovery this week and see how the math is holding up. Did notice a few weeks back that the newer-ish CD/DVD drives with the very small SATA boards don't justify a buy price much over iron and have been finding lots of them in towers. It's not exactly the same as the small socket colored mobos but is yet another example of how miniaturization is changing ewaste returns and lowering the value of towers. Still find them to be *very* much worth the time to pursue, especially since I spend a fair amount of time working towards greater than scrap value recovery from them.

I just got a few hundred towers this week with those CD/DVD drives you're talking about. Kinda bummed because recently I have been lucking out with getting a lot of older drives with decent sized boards. Won't even waste my time pulling the boards on these ones.