Re: Old hard drive resale prices

On 11/08/2020 9:22 am, Percival P. Cassidy wrote:
> I was going through my stash of pensioned-off hard drives today and out of curiosity looked at the 
> prices they are getting on eBay (not the asking prices but the completed-sale prices).
> 
> E.g., $157.19 for a pre-owned Seagate 500GB ST3500320AS!!
> 
> $50.50 for a circuit board for an ST500630AS (allegedly to allow recovery from a drive with a dead 
> board)
> 
> $99.99 (plus $57.75 shipping !!!!) for a pre-owned 5TB Seagate ST5000DM000
> 
> $145.99 (with free shipping) for an identical drive
> 
> Why???
> 
> Perce

To use the parts for data recovery usually. The prices might be high but I doubt volume of sales is.
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