i have read quite a few write ups on the tear down of an HDD. However, I never see anyone talking about the small gold plated bit inside the actual read eye in all HDD's. I have found this same small gold plated part in every type of disk reader, ETC ... CD drives, DVD Drives, Blu-Ray and HDD's.



So my question is... Is there anyone else out there that collects these for a later sale.

It would take a loong time to save up enough of them to scrap them or sell them. Time is something I have a lot of. So I break everything down to the smallest parts that I can.