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Anyone in the market for decommissioned Hard Drives? (WD Enterprise)

jonbeardjonbeard Member, Patron Provider
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So I have a good size stack of hard drives that have been decommissioned, ranging from 500GB to 1TB. All of which are Black Label HDDs (enterprise).

These would need to be used for parts, as all of them either have clicking, S.M.A.R.T. or failure to recognize issues. This is drives that are out of WD Warranty (RMA not available).

Wasn't sure if anyone actually needed any for parts (if people still work on these)? Would be selling these for parts on behalf of my company. Thought I would offer here before I post these on eBay.

Thanks!

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  • NomadNomad Member

    Any offer should have a price sticked to it, isn't it? (:

  • jonbeardjonbeard Member, Patron Provider
    edited September 2015

    Here is what I have:

    2TB WD - WD2002FYPS

    500GB WD - WD5003ABYX

    1TB SEAGATE - ST1000NM0033

    500GB WD - WD5002ABYS

    500GB WD - WD5003ABYX

    1TB WD - WD1002FBYS

    500GB WD - WD5003ABYX

    Would like to sell the lot as a whole.

  • netomxnetomx Moderator, Veteran

    Sell them to HDD recovery enterprises

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  • jonbeardjonbeard Member, Patron Provider

    @netomx said:
    Sell them to HDD recovery enterprises

    Do you happen to know any good ones off the top of your head?

  • WilliamWilliam Member
    edited September 2015

    If you have the right contacts you can resell them back to the original manufacturers (mainly in Malaysia) - Export is complicated though as private person. Payment is crap, few $ per HDD.

  • jonbeardjonbeard Member, Patron Provider

    @William said:
    If you have the right contacts you can resell them back to the original manufacturers (mainly in Malaysia) - Export is complicated though as private person. Payment is crap, few $ per HDD.

    Our distributor company in CA isn't interested much, I have tried going down this road already haha :D

  • jbilohjbiloh Administrator, Veteran

    Good luck with the sale Jon! Nice to see you around these parts, it's been a long time.

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  • MarkTurnerMarkTurner Member

    Ebay is probably the best option, if you have a few hundred then one of the recyclers maybe interested but they'll pay pennies.

  • jonbeardjonbeard Member, Patron Provider

    @jbiloh said:
    Good luck with the sale Jon! Nice to see you around these parts, it's been a long time.

    Thanks man, it has indeed been a long time LOL! Figured after many years I would finally make an account on here :P

    @MarkTurner - Yeah that was what I was thinking to... If nothing else, maybe I will turn it into a fun experiment :D

  • wychwych Member

    Where would they be shipping from?

  • MarkTurnerMarkTurner Member

    What is your total volume of disks?

  • jonbeardjonbeard Member, Patron Provider

    @wych said:
    Where would they be shipping from?

    At our Dallas, TX facility. I have large Hard Drive tray's for shipment, so it will be secure and tidy :)

  • wychwych Member
    edited September 2015

    @jonbeard said:
    At our Dallas, TX facility. I have large Hard Drive tray's for shipment, so it will be secure and tidy :)

    Ahhh, shipping to UK would kill it for me. GLWS.

  • jonbeardjonbeard Member, Patron Provider

    @MarkTurner said:
    What is your total volume of disks?

    Mark,

    This is what I currently have available (included Model Numbers as well):

    2TB WD - WD2002FYPS

    500GB WD - WD5003ABYX

    1TB SEAGATE - ST1000NM0033

    500GB WD - WD5002ABYS

    500GB WD - WD5003ABYX

    1TB WD - WD1002FBYS

    500GB WD - WD5003ABYX

  • pbgbenpbgben Member, Host Rep

    @jonbeard said:

    Is that 7 disks in total?

  • jonbeardjonbeard Member, Patron Provider

    @pbgben said:

    Yes sir, that is correct.

  • MarkTurnerMarkTurner Member

    I would go Ebay :) If you're recycling a few hundred disks then you may get the attention of a recycler. But I think on Ebay you'll get good money

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  • jonbeardjonbeard Member, Patron Provider

    @MarkTurner said:
    I would go Ebay :) If you're recycling a few hundred disks then you may get the attention of a recycler. But I think on Ebay you'll get good money

    Hey Mark, would you suggest selling them all as a package, or separately?

  • pbgbenpbgben Member, Host Rep

    @jonbeard said:
    Hey Mark, would you suggest selling them all as a package, or separately?

    Individual has the highest potential of max income, just make sure to make it clear they are for PARTS... Some dbag will still manage to complain its faulty... :/

  • pbgbenpbgben Member, Host Rep

    If you had the spare time, or an intern :P

    Get them to strip them down and sell the shiny parts inside

  • MarkTurnerMarkTurner Member

    jonbeard said: Hey Mark, would you suggest selling them all as a package, or separately?

    Not my area of expertise. You could talk to one of the Ebay seller assistants.

  • jbilohjbiloh Administrator, Veteran

    Sell each drive individually for sure.

  • qpsqps Member, Host Rep

    We typically send ours to be recycled.

  • doughmanesdoughmanes Member

    I need some shooting targets....

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  • xmobxmob Member

    Were these drives used to host customer data? They should be destroyed (physically shredded) if this is the case.

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  • jonbeardjonbeard Member, Patron Provider

    @doughmanes said:
    I need some shooting targets....

    Best idea yet! LOL! Unfortunately there isn't much "isolated" areas here in Dallas, and they don't take too kindly to people shooting guns in the city xD

  • XFS_DukeXFS_Duke Member

    @jonbeard said:
    Best idea yet! LOL! Unfortunately there isn't much "isolated" areas here in Dallas, and they don't take too kindly to people shooting guns in the city xD

    If you want to take a trip next door to Louisiana, I have a bunch of land, around 60 acres, we could destroy them on. Ha. I have a few new guns as well to play with. Haha. Good luck with the sale

  • jonbeardjonbeard Member, Patron Provider

    Thought I would share a good testing program for all you Mac people out there...

    Its a program called DriveDx (only $20 for registered version, highly recommend it), I have my HDD docker hooked up and I am testing these Hard Drves, here is a screenshot of what a good hard drive displays:

    And here is a screenshot of what a "going down hill", also known as my Mac HDD looks like:

    Very nice program though, I definitely recommend it!

  • scyscy Member

    xmob said: Were these drives used to host customer data? They should be destroyed (physically shredded) if this is the case.

    Yeah, if they were not encrypted and had private data you might want to be careful who you give 'em too as you currently have no way to wipe them!

  • MarkTurnerMarkTurner Member

    There is DiskCheckup too for Windows:
    http://www.passmark.com/products/diskcheckup.htm

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