Scrapping a Heap of Hard Drives for Aluminum and Gold! - How Much Are They Worth?

I've been looking at this heap of hard drives for far too long and their time has come. Let's scrap them out! I've heard they've got gold inside, but how much can I actually make scrapping them?
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[@sharkscrapper]

I get a lot of these and don't waste my time scrapping them other than to remove the boards. But I'm in the US and can easily sell to Boardsort, plus my local yard buys HDDs with or without boards. So it's much easier for me. The Boardsort HDD board categories aren't as complicated as you suggest. Low Grade HDD @ $7.00/lbs = those with SATA connectors. High Grade HDD @ $14.25/lbs = those with IDE connectors. Very easy. When I was doing this as a hobby, I'd scrap the HDD's as much to explore how they're put together as for recovery. Now that I'm in the business of scrapping, time is the driver and it's not worth my time to do anything more than remove the board. If data destruction is required I drill them. I can still sell the boards and satisify the data protection requirement.

[@shannonknopp5021]

Good info Shark. You and Thub are great resources!

[@groovethief711]

what about server grade SAS drive?

[@matt2244]

And if some one really wanted to they could still get the data off the drive even with it being hit by the punch, pretty amazing the stuff they have. Nice video I really enjoyed it and yes most new computer parts really lack gold you want to find old computer parts from the 80-90's.

[@richavic4520]

Whatcha doing with the rest of your week Thub?

[@thubprint]

Birthdays, family stuff, filmed another project for the wide stream media channel, cleaning the house from my roomie moving out, doing financial stuff, and trying to get all my ducks in a row for a few upcoming videos haha
I know it doesn’t look like much but… I need a break 😅

[@Archangel4500000]

Thub I work for a pc shop here in the states, I get all of my e-waste scrap free from my job. I use to strip down hard drives and its not too hard but its way too time consuming for the value. I just take off the hard drive boards and toss the rest in aluminum breakage. As for the boards- I have a garage and Ive got boxes of them stored in there that I've sorted out- im just waiting for a pallets worth to ship off to board sort. It will cost a few hundred bucks to ship the pallet but I should have a few thousand worth of boards. I know not an option for you because you don't have the space. Just how im solving the problem of not having a local buyer for the boards.

[@mollynakamori]

:::3 minutes in::: Ohh - this is waaay too fiddly for our Thub.

[@thubprint]

Lollllll you know me well

[@LuisRodriguez-xf9lv]

HI. save those boards as much as you can get, be patient, them other good boards, inanear future you get nuhc more profit micro scrapping, even in most transistors yo have a lot of copper, coils, and relays with silver contacts. and the kicking end is learn to proces that gold safety. Become a miner of your own montain. new hobbie. have fun and keep videos. regards from Puertro Rico

[@jonathanlincoln7381]

Put the hard drive flat on top of jaws of vise so it overhangs on each side to give the pressed in a place to go use a punch to knock it though with a hammer easy way I found to get the pressed peice out

[@Khodazmoon]

Second

[@lboe927]

Hey Thub, for the reader head post it's attached one of three ways. Either a screw in the back, a large slotted screw on the top or pressed in. If it's pressed it'll usually pop out with the reader by using a large flat screwdriver. I either pry the whole thing off or if there's a screw remove it. Clean cast every time. Plus I knock the motors out in one piece and sell em as motors. 3 lb ball peen end makes quick work of it. For the readers you may want to check with your yard. If they buy gold plated connectors they may buy those as well. Mine is giving .50 a pound. For me I can strip one with hand tools usually in under five minutes. Power tools cut that down a lot.
I'd say you got a good yard for them taking those drives as breakage. Most around here won't. Just count it as shred since there's so much other stuff in them.
I've got about 200+ hard drives I'm in the midst of tearing down right now. There's quite a few laptop drives as well. Those can be a real pain due to the small size of the screws. I'll post it when they're done.

[@thubprint]

I’ll look forward to seeing your findings!

[@jimmyhoneycutt1]

Thub, if you would like to recover some gold but without the headache, just do the gold fingers found on some boards and ram sticks. (Also on flat screen tv's) just save them up until you have a jar full, and use water with grocery store citric acid and hydrogen peroxide. It's very easy and you can at least have the joy of an occasional gold bead without involving a lot of time.

[@teet7918]

Any video about this?

[@ABrokenSociety]

@@teet7918 For real

[@ecocodex4431]

Yeah, you can sell the magnets for about 50 cents to a dollar each, and they sell well on eBay. At least, here in the states they do. I take apart a lot of things, and as a result collect a fair amount of small neodymium magnets from computer parts, headphones, handbags, etc. My last stash of about 70 often tiny af magnets (the whole lot totaling about 2 ounces) sold for 22 bucks plus shipping. So... it might not be alot, but it is something.

[@thubprint]

Right on! Doesn’t sound like they’re worth enough unless there’s quite a pile of them

[@ecocodex4431]

@@thubprint you can always send them to me, lol, I'll sell em for ya

[@andrewcannon587]

@@ecocodex4431 ha, hate to see those neo mags get scraped as tin steel

[@ecocodex4431]

@@andrewcannon587 Me too! I always try to find a way to salvage them if I can, as rare earth metals are very important. Plus, they are perfectly usable for craft supplies.

[@richardwarnock2789]

All this dirty Aluminium talk makes me think I need sort some too!!! Cause I'm a scrapping too!

[@thubprint]

I’m learning it’s nice to keep the “to do” pile as small as possible haha

[@111kenni]

the metal that the magnets are glued on are a high nicol alloy to control the magnetic field. these are probably a high value fraction of the total scrap value!

[@dlgravedigger]

Ya. I heard those magnets are high quality also.

[@Junknstacked]

Here in the phillipine those hard drives is a 1 USDollar per kilo... That's a dirty aluminum here... You don't need to tear it apart... They can buy it at it is...

[@handduggraverdronline]

Idk why people destroy hard drives with punch or burn them. All you have to do is place on a speaker magnet

[@davegdm954]

also 10 cents a pound for hard drive boards is a total rip off. even for lowgrade ones you should get $5 a pound if not more

[@jonathangreen7634]

Them disc are worth money too , a friend of mine pays 5.00 each because he removes the metal and make alot for them

[@andrewcannon587]

i dismantled alot of HD, forget the gold part, it's much much much much much much less worth than the effort put into getting it

[@adey88splace]

Those neodymium magnets can be sold. I had a buyer here that paid two dollars (cdn) a piece for them. Not bad.

[@TheTruth7340]

Aqua regia is how I do those cp chips, gold fingers ect....

[@trench124]

But taking stuff apart is soooo much fun

[@thubprint]

Agreed haha

[@twisted2291]

A punch and 2lb hammer makes easy work of popping out the bearings and bushing on the aluminum hard drive bodies. If you use a Air Hammer it even easier. But most of your gold recovery is going to be in the read/write heads of the HDD. If I remember correctly. It takes 1000 HDD boards to get about a gram of gold in return. Mind you that is newer drives (No older then 10 years. The older ones have a little more in them) You can also take the magnets out of the hard drive and sell them for about $5.00 to $10.00 a pound (depending on their size) on eBay. To be honest. You would do better just selling the drive whole as dirty aluminum. I have done it many different ways. It really depends on just how much return you want to make with your time invested.

[@derekelliott6098]

A good tip: use a much, much smaller power driver. Using that big ole 12v one makes YOU use a lot of micro energy. That wears your arm and shoulder muscles down quick. There's good ones that run on 18.5Kmah batteries (the ones about the size of a thick finger).

[@cmrhoads]

I always do well with hard drives. I usually assembly line them. So remove boards, then remove all screws, etc. Locally (Colorado USA) I have people that buy the magnets from me for a per pound rate, and it pays well. All the other stuff pays out pretty well. Only issue lately has been getting hard drives. I generally wait until I have 50 or more drives before I even process them. Good money though when all is said and done.

[@sigfr31dz]

I wish we could go back to the old contents... I miss the adventure...

[@thubprint]

I like the adventure too bud 🙃
I expect to still do those types of vids occasionally but I want to try do something better

[@chipurmunki]

I've seen hard drive components sell on eBay. Might be worth a look.

[@seeker_of_knowledge5859]

the read write arm has gold in it, you just need to look closely, and knowing your metal would help as well as there is magnetic and non magnetic stainless steel

[@metaldragonbraveheart]

I just did 3,000 of them by hand no power tools LOL> It keeps me busy , Have another 400 coming this week, And there is a gold pin driven into the side of read write arms 10 grams of them will yield 1 gram of gold.

[@duncanhorne962]

Many thanks for the pointers. I am about to purchase a furnace, nothing big or fancy, 1K to 3K, electric + moulds should about cover my own personal needs & I have reserved Ali / Copper / Brass etc / well I am doing my best to achieve the requirements I want, personly, so not far off In the next week or so I am going for It, once again many thanks, think I have watched enough vids. Time for Action, all the best, bud, B-Lucky!

[@thubprint]

Nice, that’ll be fun! Electric ones are an interesting option

[@allfather5150]

My local yard is giving me $0.25/pound US for complete hard drives. I know I can break them down, it's easier to just toss them in a box and wait until I have 100 pounds or so.

[@williammeeks1283]

I'm a lost ball in high weeds when it comes to e scrap. I've watched videos but they're all giving different info so I just have a pile of them lol. Good video as always

[@lboe927]

Keep watching videos on it. I've been scrapping for years and there isn't much I haven't taken apart, but just recently started filming it so I suck on the video side of it. But if you have any specific questions just ask the people here. Most that I've seen are more than happy to answer.

[@saltyassassins5816]

If you by chance havre a yard local to you that buys ewaste I'd recommend asking them how they want boards sorted and run with it. I've been doing ewaste recycling for about 10 years and have found every yard is a little different on how they handle boards

[@sharkscrapper]

Happy to assist if desired William. I've been at this for a while and run a small ewaste biz in NE Florida.

[@williammeeks1283]

@@sharkscrapper I'm really not sure how far I need to go on cleaning the boards. I'm not sure on what to take off or leave on lol

[@digitalmusic4803]

The hard drive boards are worth at least 10 usd a pound. Check boardsort: High Grade non-SATA Hard Drive Board image. $14.25 ;

[@mollynakamori]

Annnd . I was mostly right. I'm thinking you could go to your parents' house, spend a weekend panning their front yard, having Mom spoil you with good cooking, and get about an equal amount of gold. This was fun, Thub. Thanks.

[@thubprint]

😆 I think you’re right again! Really not much for gold unless you wanna get right into chemicals

[@adambuysyuckyhouses]

i can help you with your ewaste. comment back if u r interested. if not i like ur videos keep going

[@thubprint]

I’m always interested in learning more! I don’t come across a ton of Ewaste though

[@adambuysyuckyhouses]

@@thubprint i dont do it for the money. Just a hobby and for some reason ppl on here like it

[@adambuysyuckyhouses]

@@thubprint buy HCL and peroxide at Walmart. 10 bux. Clean bucket. Break off plastic plugs with gold pins. Soak for a week or less depending on how warm it is. Warmer is better. Rinse. Filter. Comment if u wanna kno more

[@al9929]

China is considering halting neodymium export. If they do those magnets should soar in value.
Save them folks!

[@josinora]

Nice haul but would check each one for bitcoins and do the trip to sell the boars and do dumster diven along the way. Maybe to find new profitalbe treasure hunting places - even gas is expencive at the moment. Stay save and blesssings

[@cocopufer5667]

ive seen a few videos lately of people extracting the precious metals from that stuff..not sure how much moolah youll make but it looks pretty fun to do! and it would be one hell of a video.

[@thubprint]

I think about that often 😄

[@zero-waste]

To make the dismantling faster, just line up all the Hard Disk Drives and heat the labels with a Heat Gun one by one. It's so easy to peel off the labels when they are hot. Without labels all "hidden" screws become visible.
I process virtually every single part of Hard Disk Drives myself for recovery of all values. The platters are processed in a hypochlorite cell, recovering all metals (Nickel, Platinum, Cobalt, Tantalum, and other) from the coating without damaging the aluminium disk.
All the small internal parts are processed in separate batches for recovery of Basic Metals as well as Precious Metals.
Printed Circuit Boards (PCBs) from HDs are valuable. Hydrometallurgical removal of the solder enables all components to fall off. All tin from the solder is recovered (worth four times more than copper). The electronic components are small, but very high quality. They are sorted and processed in separate batches, yielding PMs and Base Metals.
Nothing is thrown away; every single bit of the HDDs is processed at home, with 100% of the values recovered. Even plastic parts/fibers are processed by pyrolysis.
Silver and other metals is recovered from common CDs. They're made of Polycarbonate plastic covered with a metal coating.

[@larryfromny32]

i save working harddrives... i opened one old harddrive years ago... looked like too much of a headache

[@dlgravedigger]

I've started saving e waste boards from work. They throw away printers, calculators, everything. Gonna follow this stream!!!!

[@andrewcannon587]

not all e waste board worth money tho.

[@dlgravedigger]

@@andrewcannon587 so how do I really know which boards to save? It's sooo hard

[@andrewcannon587]

@@dlgravedigger depends on your area. Some area access to buyers is easy so one can sell all grades of circuit board. In other area with no access to buyers, even selling high grade boards are not worth it, just like what happen to thub.

[@davegdm954]

i sell all of my hard drives with the board as scrap unless I need to open them for data destruction. saves hours of time

[@DreidMusicalX]

I have a hard drive that is sealed and I cannot get into it. Any suggestions?

[@murlbailer3755]

I assume you know those magnets are worth selling?🐎🌻✌️

[@Blue-zx7ot]

You can save time by doing multiples at a time. I work 6 at once. Most of the time you can just take a flat blade screw driver and pop the boards off. I just pull the boards off and just toss the shells in dirty aluminum pile. Only timeni tear them down it to get the magnets. You can put the magnet in a vice and and bend it to release 1 edge of the magnet then pop the mag off the base plate. Align them on a pc of steel and they make excellent tool holders or tarp hold downs on the side of your truck. Just my .02. HD's are a bit of a pain in the arse. Best $$ is to find a pc shop the will buy them. I get 4 to 8 bucks from my guy 500gb+. The pressed ones suck to work no doubt.

[@dsmasynergy]

Removing screws under the stickers...I think you might have voided the warranty on some of those drives. 😀

[@thubprint]

It’s okay I already lost the receipts 😆

[@riverboat28]

How much space would it take to throw those platters aside for the future

[@spangdeez498]

To answer your very last ? - either do what u said (save up more) and sell to that one dude for guaranteed money or throw it in the junk pile for .12 cents a pound if it is t worth the time to you

[@RHYGAR1]

awesome vid thanks my brother

[@crankshaft1102]

Red deer metals also buys boards , no idea what they pay as I haven't sold any there yet

[@andreabc1469]

In Germany a Kg HDD Boards is 20€ or 22$ US

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[@joeybuldo3008]

You should do more videos like this in the shop on the regular along with trash picking and maybe run thru the bins every now and then for old times sake

[@thubprint]

That’s what I’m hoping for, absolutely. I really enjoy both, setting up the camera and microphone and trying for quality is fun for me but I also like the adventurous side

[@DIYwithBatteries]

I just need the circuit boards ;) Haha

[@theaussienurseflipper.8113]

Just depopulate the boards.

[@BADHIGEEN]

Those magnets a like brownie points with the shed guy.

[@jerrykuras2979]

I'm from the US here we can sell hard drives whole for around 50cents a pound board sort also buys whole hard drives but with shipping costs might not be an option keep scraping

[@thubprint]

I’d be more than happy with that!

[@MattsAwesomeStuff]

The Good Life Bikes nonprofit was always happy to take my extra hard drive magnets, but, after getting bounced around from Kensington to Mission to Chinook, they weren't able to pay their bills and went under a few years back. Schools would love them if you're feeling charitable. The ones on the bent plates you can still extract, just try to peel the plate back off them like a banana peel, it's really soft compared to the magnet, and then yank the magnet off. 90% success rate without shattering the magnets for me. Neodymium magnets that size cost like, $5-10 apiece so, just about anyone would want them. Better than a stud finder for finding screws. You could also layer a bunch of them to make a magnetic pickup tool or magnetic floor sweep (with drop lever). I'm with you though, hard drives aren't really fun to process, technical work with tiny screws, low mass.

[@thubprint]

I suppose I hadn’t thought of private sales for the magnets, they are pretty high quality material if magnets are what a person needs

[@MattsAwesomeStuff]

@@thubprint you probably won't get anything, but they're expensive to buy so it's nice to save them and give them away.

[@bigredbullion3883]

Great video

[@BushDogScrapper]

I got a bunch of these to tear down I'm out in my garage watching your video on a 42in sony bravIA I got trash picking only a couple light scratches at the top of the screen perfect garage tv ♻🌎👍 another banger video Thub

[@thubprint]

A garage tv? That’s some bougie scrap cave you got set up there 😏

[@BushDogScrapper]

@@thubprint it's not that nice trust me it's not insulated or anything power is supplied by extension cords running from the house and the breakers trip off anytime you have to many things plugged in when your working on anything 😂

[@OriginalNethead]

I watch an e-waste scrapper in Australia sometimes. If you don't have a guy like him locally or have to pay postage, definitel not worth your time.

[@thubprint]

That’s what I’ve learned for sure

[@dr.a006]

I have learned a lot from eWaste Ben (Australia)

[@Mezox13]

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[@BTCtrees]

🗑🐼

[@raresoupninja]

toba boy?

[@jackmclane1826]

The lids often are stainless steel although they are magnetic. If you roll stainless steel (or bend of form in any way), it becomes slightly magnetic. It goes away with a heat treatment, but that is usually not done if not really necessary. It costs money... If it is strongly magnetic, it is still stainles steel with >12% chromium inside, but the less valuable ferritic type that most scrapyards don't take in seperately. Look for a big one. They might have a category in between.
So taking the board and lid off, probably maximizes your hourly wage. If you can get a ferritic stainless steel rate for the lids, it might be a good wage!

[@bobelofson609]

Trash panda 🐼 I'm more of a Garbage scow!

[@thubprint]

😆

[@spangdeez498]

(I’m sure you do) but keep all those pieces of scrap metal like the screws and stuff - throw em in a bucket and before you know it that bucket will weigh 30 pounds …. That’s just for junk prices tho but it all adds up!

[@thubprint]

I sure do! Always have a steel bucket handy these days

[@spangdeez498]

@@thubprint not sure how it works up there (Canada) but I go to the gun range and pick up the brass casings and take those in made 40$ in about 20 minutes this past Monday - but if you ha e that opportunity- I would def take it , and pick up as many as you can! Lol

[@Kretion666]

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[@tristangwithian4010]

The housing the magnet is glued to is indeed a high Nickel alloy, as another commenter noted. It's called mu metal and is 77 to 81% Ni. If you can't sell this as dirty nickel at a scrapyard but can supply enough, "mu metal" manufacturers might buy it from you. You're probably going to need 100Kg to get them interested, however. Nickel recycling will get very popular in Canada now that Glencore and others want it as a battery metal and have weighed into recycling recently.
With desktop hard drives, have T8, T7 and T6 screwdrivers available for disassembly.
Finally, those little motors can usually be pressed out fairly easily in a $100 Arbor press (and older ones can even be unscrewed.

[@jackmclane1826]

Hard drive boards are valuable per kg, because they are built very light and thin but in the same time require highly capable chips to operate. Nobody said there was a lot of gold inside.
But the ratio of valuables to junk is better than in most other types of boards.

[@andrewcannon587]

thanks for the info. E is my usual scrapy buyer. What you said today, I will be taking my Al to R along with my steel too. Really surprise E pay so low for Al.

[@thubprint]

I know!! I didn’t want to waste people’s time talking about it because it doesn’t apply to most of my viewers but I was really surprised how far apart they are. E is still better (I think) on clean extrusion.

[@andrewcannon587]

@@thubprint maybe because E has a smaller yard, prefer to take in clean products than holding whole bunch of assorted grades like R which have the space.

[@nocomment6490]

With this video you have officially begun to cross that line we talked about, he kept the magnets... okay dad... Dilligaf...

[@donkeykong1234]

do you have any videos on scrapping out desktop computers? i literally just throw the cases into the public county metal scrap bins because it has been barely worth my time to load up the van with 40 cases for maybe 10 bucks.

[@kevink.2719]

Interesting video

[@callumminion7409]

Keep up the good work mate

[@Gbienek1]

Thanks for making such informative videos brother!! It helps me quite a bit when I come across a large amount af a certain item and then decide to scrap as-is or tear it apart. It’s honestly a dilemma I come across at times. My favorite and go-to scale operator at the yard I tend to frequent more than most, is honest enough to tell me at times to not drop off certain items unless I tear them down so I can make more money. Of course, he likes the tips as well, lol 😂
Thanks Again Thub!!

[@iffy9776]

I knock the motor out and then have cast aluminium, the old drives have bigger boards and are easier to take apart. The magnets I've sold on ebay. It does take a long time to take apart I have done hundreds. I do it watching TV otherwise you get so bored.

[@TheStu10]

Hey thub, you should send the boards you’ve collected to excir in Alberta and see how much they pay for the gold extract.

[@livvyweimar7362]

Okay recovering the gold is hard. But it can be worth it once you get the actual price for gold.

[@gravitybear]

Timely! I have about 4 times that many drives and I've been wondering how I could get the best value possible for them. I know about Boardsort, and I'm already in the US, but shipping from me to them is not insignificant. Thank you as always for your great breakdown.

[@thubprint]

Thank you! I hope you can find a local buyer for the boards, they should be worth a bit to someone

[@sharkscrapper]

Where are you located in the US? I send a lot of material to Boardsort from FL. Average shipping for me is $1.00/lbs. Happy to see if there's anything I can do to assist.

[@gravitybear]

@@sharkscrapper Thanks! I've watched your videos about boxing things for Boardsort, as well, but I've gone back and forth about shipping or finding a local yard that will buy.

[@sharkscrapper]

@@gravitybear Understandable

[@andrewcannon587]

your work table is definitely less cluttered than mine

[@chopchopbusybusyworkworkba420]

Good video, for me after that, i say throw it in the shred pile and the time it took you to take apart go and find more scrap.

[@thubprint]

That’s the thing isn’t it.. if a person is scrapping to make money it’s much faster to fill a truck with steel and more

[@trasieinkersole491]

Great content. ❤️💙

[@TheWolfster001]

The pins are gold plated.. There are tons of video's on how to process circuit boards.. It is a long process, But you can make good money on it..

[@thubprint]

I think “good money” is relative, depends how much you have to process at a given time

[@TheWolfster001]

@@thubprint Agreed, when you clean & process circuit boards, it takes a lot of time, and unless you have a steady supply and the right tools, It is not something everyone can do.. You have been doing good with what I call normal scrapping, as long as that is working for ya, I wouldn't worry about fine cleaning the boards, just keep them when you get them and sell whole boards when you got a bunch.. There are always going to be someone who will buy... Where I live, there are people buying everything. Including old tires & glass...

[@justinb6393]

There is an excellent buyer in New Brunswick, I always leave with a couple hundred dollars, I realize it’s very far from you but eventually someone there will start processing them, the cpu processors are worth almost 20$ a pound, like all e waste it takes forever to get some weight built up, keep doing the thing brother!

[@krazedlunatick]

I'm in NB. Where's this buyer located lol. I'm sitting on a mountain of scrap

[@justinb6393]

@@krazedlunatick d r scrap metals buys boArds, if there sorted correctly and you have the fingers off and have good quantities the prices are good, haven’t been there in a while but try em…

[@thubprint]

I keep saving up the stuff that seems good quality but I hope a buyer comes our way soon! 🤣

[@ccartershecticlife]

First

[@TheUltimateRecycler]

Nice wrap up Thub! I'm still saving these and will work out what to do with them at some stage down the track! I may well refer back to this video when the time comes - along with all the valuable comments!! 👍