HDD GURU FORUMS

I run a small tech service in the Portland, OR USA area. I replace failed/failing HD's frequently and have several dead HD's in a stack in my office. Is there a market for these? If they could help someone, and I could get a couple of bucks I'd be happy to make them available. Is posting what I have a reasonable thing to do, or just watch for Wanted posts.
Thanks for your time.

Before you go selling those drives, you have to understand that you are responsible for the data that is on them. So, make sure you wipe them before you pass them on. A lot of our service partners will give us their client's "dead" drives in exchange that we destroy the data for them.

good call Luke. I almost fell of my chair while reading that guys post. Does he want to do "Time" for a "Dime"

I DBAN all drives.
You're so condescending....Welcome to you too.

02befree wrote:I replace failed/failing HD's frequently and have several dead HD's in a stack in my office.

02befree wrote:I DBAN all drives.

I write as someone who has been involved in corporate data destruction issues, and one of the problems is that for a "failing" disk (which I define for this purpose, as one which you cannot read completely & without error, and so includes "failed" and "dead" drives) then either:

a) DBAN might stop with an I/O error before completion, so the original data may remain (at least partially) intact, and able to be recovered by those with suitable skills & equipment; or

b) DBAN might appear to succeed, but you can't read the whole drive, so you can't confirm that it succeeded - so again the original data may remain (at least partially) intact, and able to be recovered by those with suitable skills & equipment.

Therefore for "failing" (or "failed" or "dead") drives, DBAN (and other similar techniques) cannot be relied upon IMHO. Just my $0.02.

You can post what you have for sale on the hard drive market section of the forum (will need to post all specs and the drive's condition in order to get any bids), or wait for someone to post a need for one (this is likely a long wait), or sell on eBay.

Thank you for your applicable and appropriate replies.
Noted, and Will Do.