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Are these something taken by boardsort or only the circuit board. Have many new in box.

probably take them as a take apart class or whatever it's called.

Whole they go as cd/floppy drives under the hardware section.

If you’re close to a larger scrap buyer these are generally better to take apart.
You get two high peripheral boards, the laser control board is high peripheral, Low telco, or high telco.
A pile of aluminium, stainless, and ferrous steel. Nuts and screws are also stainless.
A small motor, some wire, and a few fold connector ends. The plastic case (older) can be properly recycled curb side in most locations as well. Otherwise you have sheet aluminium

But I’d personally sell it. It’s selling for $25-$50 on average. It’s a writer.
Read

4x ± r/w
6x-8x DVD
4x VCD
28x CDR
Full CAV CDA

Write 2x/4x22/22x

It’s also a (custom) firmware reversible direction and speed controllable drive. Meaning it can play some 90s era CD games and long-forgotten video formats. Like CD quad audio, China Video Disc, XVD-CD, DivX (non-degrading type), SVCDe, and glass masters.
And it can write (with proper software) quad audio, CVD, EVD, and even DLCD: one of five drive families capable of writing and reading dual layer CDs. That’s DLCD and DTS CDs. There’s other four are all from Sony (1) and Plextor (3).

There’s a reason this sells for more than a USB3 BDR. And you appear to have the BOX!

Remember you can always contact the olde guard like myself if you want to discuss alternative options directly by email. A few of us have made our contacts as clear as we can to not get sucked into spam bots. I reside at Gmail. Willing adoption homes exist for lost puppies. And we tend to happily pay any associated adoption costs.

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My point being, this is a rarity. units have sales prices on multiple sites passing $50 new and averaging around $20-30 used.
This isn’t something to scrap. It’s not a golden egg, but definitely a treasured piece of tech.

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even tho they are external?

As far as I’ve sent them in the past, yes.

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Yes. The company I'm working with has disabled usb storage drives of any type so all these that come packed standard are completely unopened. I would prefer to recycle whole since it does seem like a waste, just not interested in long term storage since that usually ends up as a store and forget.