How to kill hard drives fast and simple

**CanIScrapIt** · 01-18-2012, 04:27 PM

You said something about the hard drive losing value if you take the cover off? Do you mean they are worth more sold as full units than as disassembled parts?

**easyrecycle** · 01-18-2012, 05:07 PM

Originally Posted by CanIScrapIt

You said something about the hard drive losing value if you take the cover off? Do you mean they are worth more sold as full units than as disassembled parts?

your right...we opened this one to show you what it looks like once you push the motor into the hard drive like we did.

Once you open it you kill the price....if you leave it as a whole unit we are buying them at 60cents up to 75+cents based on how much weight you have.

**Jeremiah** · 01-18-2012, 07:23 PM

Can you exand on this. I was opperating under the assumption that e-waste dealers wanted the boards and paid up to $10 per pound. The rest of the HD is either Al or Stainless which could be sold as well as the magnets could be sold on ebay. I'm new to this and trying to run the numbers. I would happily send you the HD full with motor smashed if it saved time and made more money.