Hard Drives: Selling whole or parting out

Originally Posted by miked

I'm not sure of your experience so please don't take what I say as an insult someone else may not know what you know so I will answer to those who have little experience.

In my opinion once you remove the board you have something that can only be sold as dirty Al. The price on dirty Al at my yards is $0.10-$0.25/lb.

If I disassemble the hard drive I get clean Al and usually clean SS. Current prices at my yard are about $0.50/lb for Al and $0.60/lb for SS. With labour and other things like shipping or handleing and consideration for the scrap value of the board $1.00/lb may be a good deal for many. One of our buyers is currently paying $0.85/lb for hard drives.



There are many threads on scrapping hard drives and some are listed at the bottom of this thread. Mike

An ewaste buyer towards the top of the ladder can pay about .40 for hard drives without boards. much better return from the shredder than regular dirty alum. but, yes that is about the price you would get from a yard.