Hard Drive Breakdown Numbers - Page 2

My 2 cents

Most HD covers is a good quality S.Steel. Because inside magnet is extremely strong, after while its magnetize.
My scrap yard buy it as regular SS.

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Originally Posted by PartTimeScrapper

The refiner I use doesnt want alluminum in the mix of boards. Thats why I have an email into them to see if they can do anything with them.

Do they just want it kept at a minimum? Boards are loaded with those aluminum can capacitors.

Originally Posted by Mechanic688

No, the plat. layer is so thin that it is not recoverable. I sell the platters on Ebay as wind chimes .

Now thats a great idea! and a good way to re-use material at a profit. I saw your ebay listing much better than $1/lb.

Were any of the drives in working condition?

I just put up an auction on ebay for 3 working 80 GB 3.5" Sata drives. Started the auction at $5 and they ended up selling for $30 + $10 flat shipping. Have a bin of them, maybe 50 or 60 of differing drives that were otherwise going for scrap.

Just perusing the sold listings even working 40 GB IDE drives are selling for $10 a pop, which for how obsolete they are, is very surprising.

got to say most intresting convo indeed