Scrapping hard drives

you can search this on the forum on what the platers are made of...its been said a few times nows and where to sell them.

Sand basting them should not make them worth more.

I will buy the hard drives from you at $0.90 for that much weight. each drive is a pound or a little over so thats a cash offer of $1,530.

AL is selling for around $0.70 or so.

Originally Posted by KC-SF

I wish I could flip these drives. They belonged to a company that operates several internet server farms with about 300 servers per location. Their drive arrays reject about 50 drives a week. The drives probably could be repaired and re-certified, but they still contain client data and they don’t want to risk putting a repaired drive back into service. I have to scrap & certify that the drives are destroyed, and produce a weekly scrap report. I just picked these people up and if all goes well, they’ll give me everything they need to get rid of for free from now on.

Congrats and getting a good contract like that. Some companies want to be paid to recuperate some sort of costs, but others like your new clients, want the cheapest way possible to dispose of them, so they dont spend money out of pocket.

Have fun scrapping them.

Originally Posted by KC-SF

I wish I could flip these drives. They belonged to a company that operates several internet server farms with about 300 servers per location. Their drive arrays reject about 50 drives a week. The drives probably could be repaired and re-certified, but they still contain client data and they don’t want to risk putting a repaired drive back into service. I have to scrap & certify that the drives are destroyed, and produce a weekly scrap report. I just picked these people up and if all goes well, they’ll give me everything they need to get rid of for free from now on.

The drives would not be repaired. That would be for scrap drives. But to make sure on your paper work you can damage the drives beyond use by hitting the back of each one on top of the motor. What this will do is "push" the motor onto the hard drive disks and bend them out of shape. Once they are bent there is no fixing them. The disk and the data are gone for ever.

So you can "flip" the drives..just use a hammer and give them a good hit on the back until you see that motor "push" in an box it up and move onto the next one.

It doesn't just bend them, it breaks them. The platters shatter really easy.

I've only had 1 shatter on me and it looked like it was made out of a mirror, the rest just bend cause their alum. If you want to make sure about the destruction of the drives, take a stack of them and using a drill press just drill a couple holes in the H.D.'s Nobody can reuse em then,,,

I think he's jerking your chain cause it's been documented all over the net. Here's a quote taken from the gold refining forum.

Per the research I've done, the film on hard drive platters contains platinum, for a 3.5" platter, there is about 1 gram of film, and the film will contain between 10% and 35% platinum (more platinum the newer the drive). so 10 platters would be 1 gram or more.