Quote Originally Posted by olddude View Post
I had the same experience. hard drive break down is too time consuming. I broke all the way down about 3 or 400 hard drives clean cast brought .50 stainless paid .55 disks were counted as stainless, motors .18 the die cast rails .27. now I'm stuck with the disk readers, and , the magnets, can't find a buyer for either.
You got screwed on the platters, they go for about $5 per pound, magnets $3 per pound and reading heads $3 per pound, the hard drive motors are called stepping motors and they go for about 50 cents each. If you are selling the stepping motors as regular scrap motors you are getting screwed.