How To Scrap a Hard Drive 

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I love the way you scrap it all down as far as possible!!!

Good breakdown. With the quantity I do, I take the non SATA (or IDE) boards off. Both myself and Shark Scrapper have done the math, and it's not worth the time spent to take SATA boards off, so those get sold as is. When you're running a business, it's kind of sad that you don't get to tear everything down, but it all comes down to the bottom line. One of my favorite quotes..."If it don't make dollars, it don't make sense."

i have found that the plate you called stainless steel is often brass. i always hit it with the grinder to double check.

A most interesting and informative video. Many thanks.😊😊😊

I've dismantled several hard drives, never knew about that second layer on the cover. Them window weights are a nice chunk of metal and them magnets are very nice. God bless you brother!

Yeap - I remove the board and turn the rest in as dirty aluminum. Good info.

Great video! To the best of my knowledge, the plate where the magnet is glued is made of MU-metal, which shields well and consists mainly of nickel. I have no idea if this makes a difference in terms of price; I'm more of a chemist than a scrap dealer. I've also had two hard drives before that had round glass plates instead of aluminum ones, although they are rare. I then etched away the coating and had excellent glass plates for decorative purposes. It's incredible that the glass disks survive the high rotation speed. I wish you all the best and a wonderful day. Greetings from Germany!🙏

I saw a video about those magnets being sold on eBay. Don’t remember when? $$$. 🐎✌️ Enjoyed the video.

I love those magnets. I have a big stack of them. Always love your videos, thank you, sir.

Good day from Ontario Yes that magnet is strong , my son told me bout it but to lift 6 pds. Thanks

Great teardown buddy. Learned something new as well. Never knew the top plate could have 2 layers.

Another quality video from Scrapitall. God bless you!

Nice job on the price breakdown! I love the magnets, i use them all the time

You are Such a Blessing to RU-vid Scrapitall I love every one of your videos God Bless you my friend

I'm binge watching your videos

great video my friend, thanks for sharing your knowledge with us. Nice show of the power of magnets.😎😎⛏⛏🔥🔥

Ive torn half dozen or so HDs apart . Love the neodymium magnets & told they can be sold with the MU metal backers for a pretty good price. I use Stailess Steel welding rod to weave thru the holes so i have a 3' pickup tool that sticks to everything just before i get it to the wrench i dropped down i to the engine bay😂😂😂 Platinum is on the platters but not sure if its only certain brands or vintage platers. @Streetips think he has done some refining of gold pins and HD components for the precious metals. Love his channel too! Stay well and keep up good work. M

Amen

🤙🤙👍 i got probly 100 hard drives,guess i need to get busy 😁✌️🙏

I like those magnets. I keep them all.

Thank you for this video i learned a few things more as i already know about scrappuing harddrives!

Dope video! Enjoyed 😊

Very good demonstration sir well done thanks for sharing this six stars

Really nice video! Amen and God Bless.

Thanks for the information about the stainless steel part. I bend the platters immediately after removing them to assure my suppliers that no data leaves my shop.

That was a great video. I love breaking down hard drives

Nice video

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Well done sir, have a great day.

Learn something new, thanks

Excellent job sir

Great video. I hadn’t seen one pulled apart before.

Great video

Great vid and yes I just sub because of the believe in the Lord Jesus of Nazareth I’m so happy you praying at the end makes me want to just skip to the end first great job brother I pray God put a hedge of protection around us where we can continue to pray out loud as you do. Thanks again for videos and it makes me happy knowing I didn’t go to Iraq for nothing when there are a few of y’all still out there praying God bless you and yours

Well done sir ❤

I scrap HD's down cause I can't sell e waste to the scrap yards here too. The magnets are my favorite parts they are handy on a string to pick stuff up! Awesome tear down and explanations! CheeRs Brother much love & stay Blessed

Another good break down brother.

I got 2 little round magnets,dont remember where from.they will hold and full anything,Its a pain to get off side of van where I keep magnets.Gotta love it.

Really good breakdown and tally. Funny thing: My dog smelled my phone while I was doing this comment and as he did, I saw it flash "comment added" Anyhow, I was just going to say that being able to send to boardsort would be awesome and would definitely make our ewaste scrapping more worthwhile here in Canada.

Great video my friend! That was a strong little magnet!!

I send my circuit boards to boardsort as well. Nice people,very helpful and great payout prices

The aluminum piece you took off at 5:55 has a small ring of magnetic wire in it. You can just cut the edge of the piece and peel the wire out. I only know this because I've scrapped 100's of drives over the years. I do like your videos. They are just like the ones I use to make years ago when I had the time. Very informative. Take Care.

Love from India

Unfortunately there are no buyers for ewaste in Manitoba, as well as most other Canadian provinces. There is a recycling program set up for free recycling here, but no one pays for the stuff. You pay a recycling eco-fee upon purchase of new electronics to support the program. And, Canada is signed to the "Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal", which generally doesn't allow for easy export of the materials to other countries, so mailing stuff to Boardsort from Canada is technically contrary to the laws here, and apparently Boardsort does not accept international packages, anyway. So, those who sell to them from Canada, have to drive the stuff across the border, then ship from within the US. The United State's regulations for export of ewaste are far, far less stringent than those in Canada. Export of the materials by Canadians still occurs, but technically much of it is being done illegally. In the world of eWaste, much of the low grade ewaste is usually sent to third world countries for processing, and much (not all, but the majority) of the ewaste processing being done in third world countries is being done by criminal gangs, and/or is causing major pollution, taking the lives of those processing the materials, and permanently destroying the environment in those areas, as well as polluting bodies of water, the water table, etc, so rivers take the pollutants to the oceans, where it essentially comes back to us. I had an ewaste recycling business for a few years, and looked into the background of what goes on, and found lots of dirty little secrets that people generally don't know about ewaste processing. A side note for upcycling portions of the drive...the center discs, platters, and other parts can be marketed as art and craft materials to builders/artists for art, props, crafts, jewellery, etc....just save up groups of like components and sell in batches on ebay, ETSY, etc. Used to do that, and did ok with them...got far more money than scrap value.

I am a hobby scrapper as well. I am curious about the gold connectors on the rj45 and rj14 cables. Right now I am snipping off the ends. I have almost 20 pounds of them. What procedure would you use to recover the gold or do you know of other places who would buy them? Thanks 8:50

How do you get the electric motors out if there are no screws to remove it.

I thought there was platinum somewhere in there. Like on the platters? Is that not true?

Have you got a Scrapitall way, haha to remove the motor cover to get at the copper from the motor?

same here they stopped talking computers..

What size driver did you use on them small screws I can't find one to fit them

There might have been 14 million dollars worth of research stored on that computer. It might have been medical research that would save tens of thousands of lives across the entire planet. It could have bitcoins !!!!!

The companies that buy those circuit boards what do they do with them??

I must of misheard the pricing because if you take the board off that is worth $1 and sell the rest as a solid piece at $0.35 a pound = $0.41 for a grand total of $1.41, but if you take the whole thing apart you only get a total of $1.34??? If that is true Why Take it Apart??? Please comment and let me know where I am incorrect.. Thank-You

If your only option is having to mail scrap material out of state to a company cause you got nothing local to you. I hardly think it would be worth the time to mail scrap material cause of the cost of mailing.

Great video