When tiger computers shuttered their retail stores a few friends and I bought the various cart boxes (quarter gaylord) of msc junk at scrap weight. Boxes of cables @40c/lb. Drives with mounts @25c. The dell, IBM, and Lenovo stuff was all I could move online at any real profit. Plextor drives are the most sought drives in the world. Period. The boards are not signed or locked in any way so the drives are reprogrammable. They make great replacements for computer home brew for video game systems because they can be set to read AND BURN burst codes. Independent film companies like Toe Tag, Something Weird, Alpha, and Amazon Disc on Demand, use them to create DVD discs with hardware protections like bad sector protection, on DVD±r media. The rest of the dell (and other) dvd/cd drives have a spread from a few dollars to around 50-75 on the very high end. Dell power cables and older hp bricks (2 and 4 wire cables {figure 8 and square}, not three {triangle}) get decent rates.
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