Hello,
I can buy any type of hard drives old,new,broken or working hard drives for a fixed price of 0,50€ to KG.

Delivery in Italy at your charge, so not included.

For info PM, me with a private message.
Thanks

Nice idea ! I will do the same !

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half a euro per Kilogram?

why would we bother?

Google Price of "Neodymium magnet price" - Specially the old drives (the very old i mean).

This is One of the re-using again
OR
those defected/broken drives have a market everywhere (volumes by tons)

I know the Dubai market (at least) collected there then shipped to China (HDD manufactures). You see now drives from the same Family with Diff. HM

big market out there

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http://www.scrapsmetalprices.com/


Price of HDD PCBs on eBay -- $5 - $10 ???

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same answer..
I have about 100 drives. I am pretty sure it would cost me extra that the re-imbursement to send them to the home of delicious spaghetti. They all work, but scanning 100 drives is significant time as well. actually cheaper for me to throw them away :-/

Yes, I know it 's a low price, this because aluminium it's not 100% pure, the rest of parts of hard drive is not of same value...

This can be good only for people with a large amount that have good transport price in Italy.

yes, I seen, but for me it's only for alumminium recovery. Why you can buy it?

Hard drive refurb.

For damaged drives with for example damaged head(s) i can disable head(s) and re-sell drive with lower capacity.

If drive have bad sectoers i can remap them to factory defect list and re-sell drive.

If drive have bad head(s) and / or pre-amp i can re-use PCB (sell it on eBay for data recovery as people might need a specific PCB). Ican offer adaptation service as well (move ROM from older PCB to newer one).

Also i can use HDDs for research firmware - http://www.hddoracle.com/viewforum.php?f=59

Example - I can buy a 1TB HDD with one damaged head and disable it and i will get a 750 GB drive that i can still re-sell for more than 1€ / 50 cents that i'm offering for the damaged drive !!!

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Are you sure ?

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Yes Sure!! These are working disks tested! The announce here is only about broken disks, dead clicking, damaged sectors, smashed and etc.
Everything for aluminium recovery

Ah, ok !

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