Hard Drives from PC's for gold, palladium, tantalum & ruthenium bits 

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good day mate, just wanted to say i love your videos, it has opened my eyes to gold. i was thinking of packing up and going gold mining with my dad but i think this might be the way to go, there is so much waste in the uk so i think this will be the way to go, cheaper to set up. thanks for your hard work and keep the videos coming :~)

You r the best scrapper, you r also very informative n knowledgeable

Thank you Ben!!! This one really helped !!!!

Aluminum is good for casting and forming experiments, those drives and heat sinks are pretty pure aluminum

i strip them down,clean cast alu worth 60 or so~cents a pound,boards just a few screws holding it together toss it in the box,i use the magnets well as magnets.you can junk a pile of them while you watch tv fairly quickly and it clean work so you don't get dirty.

Manufacturers using less selling for move I will keep stock piling old broads one day prices will go up Thanks for sharing

Good video and info to know... thanks

Thanks Ben.

I keep and scrap just about everything. With hard drives I'm saving all item with PM for future recovery. It's possible that those smaller boards might be worth taking off the drive and putting them up for 15 to 20 years. Like a retirement plan. Who know what the value of all of these PM will be by then. Also refining them yourself might be a lot easier and safer too.

Good video thanks!!

At 34:28 in the bottom left corner of the board there's 2 tantalum yellow capacitor's. What's the 2 blue ones directly above them? Think they each have an "R" on them? Are they resistor's w rutheniun in them as well? Awesome channel thanks!

You having a good youtube channel with videos with a lot info. I come from Holland, but the prices are very low today. By the way the, where you can deliver youre stuff is not so far as the USA or Australia. Crystal oscilators or rutenium or MLCC we can not deliver. And if we can deliver, they give us a very low price, because they dont know what the value is. They know the value, but they given`t us. But very intersting videos with good information.

Where do you sell your metals at once broken down?

I like when you put on paper prices. Thanks

those are seagate cheetahs, i just took apart ten i got from a home server last week. those are high grade not mid at all in my opinion

I buy complete mother boards and complete hard drive for $3 each. I don't know the exchange rate would equal to, but might be worth it

Hard Drives circuit boards 15AUD/kg, hard drive with board is 0,8 AUD, but they not buy it with out the board I would like to ask how many need to be scrapped for 1 kg of board?

Ben, I went back through some hard drive boards today and pulled all the blue chips, I can't remember what you said they where. While I was harvesting them I noticed some tiny metal chips, some blue some black even a gold one with letters and numbers and words like R100, R150, DALE R175 like I said they are tiny. Do you know what these are and if they should be collected like the Tantalum, the oscillators, and flat packs and gold pins? These were all HD cards.

What are the cases and lids made from?

Hi Ben, I thought he magnets were nickel plated Neodymium. No refine value there?

Does the brand of hard drive make a difference in the quality of gold recovery in old or new hard drives? Thanks for sharing Ben

how do you get the blue resistors off?

I sell the hole tower 15cents a pound I don't take any apart I get for free so it all good

how much gold u gold 1 kg board

too much for pcbs. in my town they buy pcbs as iron, so they pay 0.17 USD each kilogram. :(

The future of hard drives are not small boards with very little precious metals in them. The future of hard drives are solid states.

I refine pd 99.35

here in the netherlands you can get 2 euro for one hard drive

Hi ben, cheers for the vid.. i was scrapping a few hard drives last night, and i noticed one has gold platters in it? Not the usual silver mirror it was a gold mirror? Its an old conner compaq 120mb HDD 141352-001 .... its pretty awesome looking so i left the platters, the needle readers, the magnets and internal ic's all intact in its case and mounted it on my fireplace like a trophy lol.. i never knew there was gold ones, and i cant find any info about them either? If anyone has any I'd love to hear it, a guy from boardsort was talking them up on a forum saying there extremely rare and very valuable to collecters and jewelers? But yeah it was an old forum and i cant find anything on google or youtube even mentioning a gold coloured platter?

wow!!!! that first really old one....did it have 2 80186 IC/Cpu slots on the back? the light brown color ones....

do you think you could refine them for gold you'l get a gram or two of 24k gold that sells for $60 per gram. all in all if you buy a killo your self for $10 you an translate that in possibly $120

do you sell to America? ?

I think you're only going to see computers produced with the heavy, platter based drives for 2 more years, tops... they'll all be solid state drives very soon. I doubt there's any scrap market for HD's in 5 years.

Wait your aussie? yay

Weld drives together into fencing, or retaining walls. Dissolve the aluminum in sulfuric acid = Alum. Dissolve the aluminum in caustic soda = Aluminum Hydroxide = Useful low toxic Fire retardant Use Aluminum frames as sacrificial anodes in hydrogen fuel cells.

you know a kilo is 2.23 pounds, so almost 2 and 1/4 pounds

hi Ben i will buy from you AUD$2 /kg if you have tons of it.

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what the fucks aluminium?