What are you guys doing with Hard drives for maximum return

Originally Posted by matador

Please let us know what you do with these. If you go the greater than scrap route, I'd be interested to see a pass/fail ratio. Most of what I see hovers around 65-75 percent. Numbers are always interesting to me.

I think a lot of the pass/fail ratio depends on your standards,your source material, and what the average customer is looking for.

Almost all of my stuff is stuff that's currently being pulled from the waste stream. I see a lot of IDE drives with capacities under 120 gb. Many would still pass a SMART test but it's obsolete tech. I see some SATA drives but many are older & smaller capacity.

Really .... you need a 250 GB SATA with a speed of 3gb/sec to keep up with a top end core two duo with maximum memory installed otherwise you can create a bottleneck at the hard drive. Those pagefile & hiberfil system files can get pretty large.

My personal opinion is that 1 TB is an absurdly large hard drive but your average customer is of the mindset that bigger is better. They are looking for a big hard drive with all kinds of RAM.

Size matters !

Some times old and small are what is needed(not often). I have had some success selling the small old ones myself. I have a theory that some old industrial machines are being repaired and are set up for the old drives. Well just my theory. Mike