My Hard drive hoarding is out of control

So if it took 8 hours to wipe a single drive, how long would it take to do four drives at the same time?
 
It's also worth checking around your local area to see if a degausser is available. Our local community college has one and I know of other techs who've made arrangements to use it for fast erasure of their mountain of drives.
 
sapphirescales said:
If you're throwing your drives away, you're leaving money on the table.
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Too much hassle for the money for me. (Sanitize each drive and be sure they are serviceable. That's dozens of hours right there. Then post on Ebay, package, ship, warranty, etc. Pffft! Just no.)
 
Diggs said:
Too much hassle for the money for me.
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Do 8x of them at a time like I do. It only takes a couple of minutes interacting with the wiping machine, then you just let it run. Takes a few minutes to take a picture of a table full of hard drives and post it on eBay. Normally I don't even sell them on eBay. I have a guy that buys them from me, but he usually only pays $6-$7 per drive so I thought I'd do eBay this time. Packing and shipping is fast and easy if you have boxes designed to ship hard drives in. If you're manually bubble wrapping each one or selling them individually then yeah, it's not worth the time or effort. You have to approach it like everything in your business. You've gotta make it fast and efficient. I usually only sell drives when I have at least 100 of them. I've actually sold them in lots of 100, but you don't get as much for them when you do that.

When it comes to laptop hard drives, I keep the best ones (low hours, high capacity) to resell as external hard drives. $7 for an enclosure and you can easily resell them for $35+. The other ones with high hours or low capacities I sell to my guy.
 
sapphirescales said:
When it comes to laptop hard drives, I keep the best ones (low hours, high capacity) to resell as external hard drives. $7 for an enclosure and you can easily resell them for $35+. The other ones with high hours or low capacities I sell to my guy.
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What do you consider low hours?
 
timeshifter said:
What do you consider low hours?
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Ideally anything 500 hours or less. I get a lot of brand new computers in that are slow because the OEM crap box has a 1TB hard drive in it instead of a SSD. People put up with it for a few hundred hours but eventually they lose all their hair from pulling it out in frustration and come to me to "clean out the viruses" or "tune it up." Then I tell them they bought a piece of crap and give them the option of either upgrading it to an SSD or trading it in for a business class. Either way I get an almost brand new hard drive out of the deal that I can wipe and resell as an external hard drive.
 
sapphirescales said:
Do 8x of them at a time like I do. It only takes a couple of minutes interacting with the wiping machine, then you just let it run. Takes a few minutes to take a picture of a table full of hard drives and post it on eBay. Normally I don't even sell them on eBay. I have a guy that buys them from me, but he usually only pays $6-$7 per drive so I thought I'd do eBay this time. Packing and shipping is fast and easy if you have boxes designed to ship hard drives in. If you're manually bubble wrapping each one or selling them individually then yeah, it's not worth the time or effort. You have to approach it like everything in your business. You've gotta make it fast and efficient. I usually only sell drives when I have at least 100 of them. I've actually sold them in lots of 100, but you don't get as much for them when you do that.

When it comes to laptop hard drives, I keep the best ones (low hours, high capacity) to resell as external hard drives. $7 for an enclosure and you can easily resell them for $35+. The other ones with high hours or low capacities I sell to my guy.
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What software do you use to wipe the drives?
 
I’m about to pull the trigger on the lever drive crusher. Old desktop shells and laptops - we have a local business where folks pay him to come in and smash stuff. That’s it. He took all of my chassis after I pulled power supplies, drives, ram and anything else usable. People love smashing their technology lol
 
Now I have done this but I only had a few drives. I just removed the cover took out the platters and magnets. The magnets are useable pulling wire inside hollow walls. Then I just broke up the platters with a hammer. No data can survive this.
 
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