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Am I seeing this right? Looking on Ebay completed auctions for SATA hard drives not working for repair or parts, It looks like the drives that are over 120GB are selling for an average of $10 plus $5 shipping.
So it looks like I can scrap them for a little over a buck and pay to ship or sell them on ebay for $10 and the buyer pays to ship.
Did I get that right?
you got it right
Less fees, packing material, overhead (Storage cost), labor, etc.
Think of it like a car. An average running car in good shape is worth $1500 all day long. I car that doesn't run, and can't run, and isn't vintage is worth whatever the junkyard will pay for it.
The same is true with Harddrives. With one exception...working harddrives that are as small or smaller than the average "jump drive" only truly have value as scrap, unless they're VINTAGE...and then you get into collector value. But the only people collecting 40gig harddrives, are people scrapping p4 computers! lol!
Vintage hard drives right now are not really worth that much right now as there is a huge amount of them on the market.Quote:
Originally Posted by thortek
Or some part-time hobby computer guys... I sold 10 40 gig ide hard drives for $5 each in the last two weeks...
Thatrs not true. I sell 40gb hard drives all day long on ebay. Sold one last week for $12 plus shipping. Granted now that I have about 40 of them im going to start trying to sell them in lots instead of solo.Quote:
Originally Posted by thortek
I was just with one of my computer guys today. He wants 20g or better. I end up trading him straight up 1 for 1 from my pile for those. He tests them on my stuff, but he is a regular seller of e-scrap for me and I don't mind. I get to 80g and I am doing the e-bay thing with them. He gets a nice upgrade and the older smaller gig hard drives that I get from him tend to have a larger board than the 20 and 40 gig drives.
There is a market for them for sure to the right guy. Even the 20giggers. If he was not trading, I am sure he would give a few dollars for them at the least.
Parrot, you just gave me a good idea, I'm going to approach a few of my local computer shops and see if they want to trade HD's. thank you, Might be a way to start getting some other dead stuff from them.
I have a local guy who works for a non-profit that restores donated computers for low-income people. He is interested in getting components that are not of huge value to me such as low-capacity HDDs (20GB+), LCDs, and even mice and keyboards. So from time to time I do exchange with him when I give him these things in exchange for all the hardware he can give me including computers that are way too old to be useful, fried MBs etc. I found this to be a better option, at least for now, for moving my small HDDs than trying to sell them on eBay or scrapping them.
just my $.02
What's the best way to wipe the drives of data before you sell them?