I am bringing in several hundred pounds of boards in a couple days, and having a bit of space left, decided to throw in a hundred or so harddrives from mostly pre-2000 towers. During the early 2000's I scrapped several thousand for the quick aluminum and steel sales, but had no buyer for boards. Well, when gold hit $300, one guy bought 500 pounds of motherboards for 30 cents per pound. However after reading the limited amount of information available on the forum, I am having second thoughts on selling whole drives, even though I don't feel I can spare the time and effort at this moment to thoroughly scrap. I don't chuckle today about how I slipped one over on the scrap yard when I threw all those dingy brown platters in the bottom of the shiny aluminum bin, and of course, puzzled by the magnetic/non-magnetic sides of the back, just tossed hundreds of backplates in the shred. Back in those days, the advice from "the experts" who had never sold a board in their life was to just cut the fingers, as that was all that was worthwhile. Here is my thinking...the whole harddrives will bring more at boardsort than I can get for cleaning them and selling aluminum local; Then, I am countered with the gold platters, plus the rhodium tips, and begin to think that maybe go ahead and pull out the boards for this trip, for another 30 bucks or so on HD boards while saving the dismantling for another time; Then again, some of the big old heavy strange looking units might have value on ebay, since I haven't really had time to research. Most of my scrapping was done 10 to 15 years ago, and I am having to relearn on the computer scrap, as at my age, I may learn something new every day: unfortunately, at my age, I also forget two old things every day.
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