I love scrapping hard drives ... that’s my therapy :) A lot of work for almost nothing but so happy with final result - when all separated and metals sorted. Great video 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 👍
Yes it was very Interesting to strip these various Hard Drives - we loved the Video and thanks for all Your Explanations again ! Cheers from us in QLD !!!!
First you buy a kit with all the bits, and then you buy just the one you mess up, and you buy it made out of titanium, it may cost as much as the initial kit but it's worth it.
Love this. Great update. Don't be afraid to make new videos updating for new information. I don't know how many people really search the old videos. They might do for a while but you never know and I really enjoyed this video.
The second from end traditional hard drive, a Western Digital, contained an extra ancillary magnet. It's in the little clear yellow plastic thing near the magnet housing. Probably only about 0.2g of magnet but if you're doing this for the magnets then you wouldn't want to be throwing it away. The magnet housing on the later hard drives is usually Mu metal, which is 77 to 80% Nickel, so if you're selling nickel at your scrap metal merchant, it's worth seeing if they'll take it.
Some stainless steels are magnetic, depending on grade of metal. Good videos, did a bit of computer scrapping and general scrapping and thought I would get $120 or so - ended up with $700 in the hand. Then I spent the lot on a new compressor.
eWaste Ben hopefully the information that you are providing can be appreciated by any eWaste scrapper that might be wishing to take their scrapping adventures to the next level. For me it's kinda obvious that you have years of gained knowledge and experience of electronic components. Thanks for sharing. eWaste micro scrapping. Yeah! 😊
The really shiny ones have rhodium over platinum cobalt samerium alloy. Easiest way to recover it is to use a lathe bit to peel the good stuff and recycle the aluminum platters. The brown platter ones are just iron or chromium oxides on aluminum.
always enjoy your vids, i just scored 40 hard drives, hate to say while on vacation, but the wife has gotten used to it, they range from today to the early 90s. should be fun
Where are you, I know you're in another lockdown I see that on the news and I'm sorry about that in the United States were only locked down for a month and a half and seems like you've been locked down forever all your fun has been taken away you can't streets can't pick up from anywhere so you're just going to have to sit on your $16,000 and but we still love watching you so keep on doing what you do best the covid is not going to last forever hopefully and you'll be back out there doing what you love best take care
Oh my, very fitting as I've been doing hard drives today as my theme this week is aluminium lol. No vintage gems like yours though, I'd love to get my hands on true vintage stuff!!!!😀👍
We've already gone past those old style SSDs, these new drives look more like a small stick of RAM with no heatsink. At least, in enthusiast home computers. For mass storage it's still probably safer and cheaper to run HDDs.
SATA 3 SSD’s are very much relevant in this day and age. M.2 NVMe is a much fast interface, however you are limited to 1 or 2 m.2 slots on ATX/MATX mobos
The old HDDs like the first ones you opened have a lot of cobalt, gold, , nickel and aluminum. The difference between platinum and palladium is their atomic weight is about the same, but palladium has a blue iridescent luster, where platinum is closer to white. Their use in components is specifically related to how they carried electricity to other components, or in flattens was how they retained magnetic influences from the read write heads. The read write heads were made of a type of spring stainless and had nickle, silver and iron tips. I clip off the ends and process them all in one batch, then separate the residual button. The boards also contain fair amounts of gold plating in the contacts and some of the chips. Stay out of trouble and get or make a very effective vent hood, a garden variety stove hood is not a positive displacement tool for poisonous fumes.
Stripping the platinum off of the aluminum disks is overly expensive for the little platinum that is actually on it. Further more, the main body on the larger platters are coated aluminum. Most the smaller ones are a coated glass.
Don't waste your time on the platters. Former HDD developer here. The platters are all aluminium coated with either cobalt or iron oxide. The reddish ones are definitely iron oxide.
Interesting. What do you mean "don't waste your time"? Do you mean they're just aluminum and thus not valuable? Also, can you suggest a good method of removing the motor?
Yup those really old ones are iron oxide coated, just aluminum value and the strong magnets to play with. Most of the value is in the logic board itself and the reader head assembly. The ones with the shiny metallic platters are coated with PtCoSm alloys, but very thin...
Very interesting….. watched this morning while having coffee. Ben…. I know you don’t like to talk about the lock down situation, but I find it very interesting to know what is going on in other parts of the world, especially Australia. Please keep us up to date on the status, because we cannot rely on news broadcast for the actual information. Here in N. Texas, we are pretty much open 100%, all schools open with hardly any “virtual “ learning….. I went to a gun show last weekend and maybe 1 person in 25 was wearing a mask. There is a lot of controversy over the “vaxxxx”. Anyway, thought you might find it interesting. Have a good’un!
I melt the platters in a furnace, as aluminium melts at around 660 degrees c. Doing that first means you remove the aluminium (which I use), and any slag would probably contain traces of cobalt, platinum etc, which all melt temperatures higher than 1000 degrees c. I've kept my slag, as I'm not sure what I could do to extract any of the other metals. I'm sure over time I must be amassing enough slag to get some platinum using acids, but thats not anything I have tried before. Whats everyone thoughts?
@ERBPlace Sorry I did not mention, I use the aluminium to cast stuff. The slag that has the other metals builds up. Its worth doing at that point as the 0.5% (if that) of platinum is now a more dominant metal, and over time is building up. I may try to see what I can get using acids once I get a high enough amount of slag that no longer has any aluminium content within.
I thought the same, though I've had some of the early ones where on closer inspection it did appear to be just cast aluminium but with no paint coating. How would you tell as they are practically the same weight? Pure magnesium would react vigorously with water, so it would have to be alloyed, which sounds more expensive than simply using cast aluminium in the first place.
I love scrapping hard drives ... that’s my therapy :) A lot of work for almost nothing but so happy with final result - when all separated and metals sorted.
Great video 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 👍
Yes it was very Interesting to strip these various Hard Drives - we loved the Video and thanks for all Your Explanations again ! Cheers from us in QLD !!!!
I'm just getting into scrapping and I found it really helpful to see inside the hard drive. Thank you
First you buy a kit with all the bits, and then you buy just the one you mess up, and you buy it made out of titanium, it may cost as much as the initial kit but it's worth it.
Years ago I met some engineers from Western Digital who told me about vertebral fights over screws in hard drives: how many, what sizes, where.
I've been waiting for this video since you picked these up from the hoard & you did not disappoint!
Great Video!!
Love this. Great update. Don't be afraid to make new videos updating for new information. I don't know how many people really search the old videos. They might do for a while but you never know and I really enjoyed this video.
Another awesome video for scrapping hard drives.
It was perfect for me I have about 50 of them to do I was looking for a video just like that
Oh yeah my favourite scrap- precious metals :) You doing good work
An educational video indeed. Ben I enjoyed 👍👍
I would argue that you would get so much more selling those to retro enthusiasts rather than getting the copper out of those
Very enjoyable watch, I've never seen what was inside a SSD before. Very interesting. Take care, Poo
The second from end traditional hard drive, a Western Digital, contained an extra ancillary magnet. It's in the little clear yellow plastic thing near the magnet housing. Probably only about 0.2g of magnet but if you're doing this for the magnets then you wouldn't want to be throwing it away. The magnet housing on the later hard drives is usually Mu metal, which is 77 to 80% Nickel, so if you're selling nickel at your scrap metal merchant, it's worth seeing if they'll take it.
Some stainless steels are magnetic, depending on grade of metal.
Good videos, did a bit of computer scrapping and general scrapping and thought I would get $120 or so - ended up with $700 in the hand. Then I spent the lot on a new compressor.
When you open new hard disk you break the disk but when you open old hard disk you break your hands
I always watch your videos
eWaste Ben hopefully the information that you are providing can be appreciated by any eWaste scrapper that might be wishing to take their scrapping adventures to the next level. For me it's kinda obvious that you have years of gained knowledge and experience of electronic components. Thanks for sharing. eWaste micro scrapping. Yeah! 😊
The really shiny ones have rhodium over platinum cobalt samerium alloy. Easiest way to recover it is to use a lathe bit to peel the good stuff and recycle the aluminum platters. The brown platter ones are just iron or chromium oxides on aluminum.
I already know what’s in these I’m just here to listen to Ben say Neodiniamnum..... 😂 good stuff.
Nothing about this video boring could watch all day. Amazing stuff. Thank you for sharing Ben.
awsome HDD history ;) i have done alot them when i whas young ;)
great video
Great vid mate
I remember back in the day when gold was under $300 an ounce and my drug smoker mate bragging that hotch was more expensive then gold
Hi Ben! Love both channels! Also loved the one blue and one green shoes your sporting, during the scrap!!
You should use the magnet to store your torques bits lol 😂
You're such a wholesome lad, love ya mate! Gonna have to go for a beer and talk electronics and PC's if I'm ever in Aus!
great to see inside all the drives, thanks
I enjoyed video. Was interesting to see the hard dives broken down next to each other over time. thanks for takung the time.
always enjoy your vids, i just scored 40 hard drives, hate to say while on vacation, but the wife has gotten used to it,
they range from today to the early 90s. should be fun
Gee, haven't the boards changed over time?! Nice video Ben 👍😊
Thumbs up for the magnets, those are nice.
those doves are noisy, we have them here in NZ
Amazing to see the difference thru the years
Nice videos mate keep helping our Earth from toxic waste going in the landfilds.
I plan to also recover the chromium and cobalt from the plating alloy. Because chemistry!
Great vid as usual m8, LOOOOVE the shoes, cheers.
I have never seen one with the clips on it yet that is the first one very interesting ben
Thanks for the great video :)
Where are you, I know you're in another lockdown I see that on the news and I'm sorry about that in the United States were only locked down for a month and a half and seems like you've been locked down forever all your fun has been taken away you can't streets can't pick up from anywhere so you're just going to have to sit on your $16,000 and but we still love watching you so keep on doing what you do best the covid is not going to last forever hopefully and you'll be back out there doing what you love best take care
scraping in the garage good job Ben
Oh my, very fitting as I've been doing hard drives today as my theme this week is aluminium lol. No vintage gems like yours though, I'd love to get my hands on true vintage stuff!!!!😀👍
you were half way through saying something about laptop ones is there anything good still in them
Thanks for sharing Sir.
As always, Ben, a great video. What a great review of history!
WOW! I hope you get a lot of precious metals out of all your hard drives!!
interesting, very interesting 😊
love it history of hard drives
Very cool. Very educative.
"Warranty void if seal is broken" lol Although very common for manufacturers to put seals like that on their products, it is a complete and utter lie.
*Otter lie
I put hose or rubber sleeves on the handle of small screw drivers. It makes it easier to turn out tough screws.
Great information. Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us.😎⛏⛏🔥🔥
👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
I'd love to see you get those copper coloured hard drive disks tested too!!
Do you know of resources for processing the old gold and chocolate colored platters, I can't find any videos on it.
Good video Ben. Please stay safe and take care. Ttyl my friend. ☺☺☺😇😇😇
We've already gone past those old style SSDs, these new drives look more like a small stick of RAM with no heatsink. At least, in enthusiast home computers. For mass storage it's still probably safer and cheaper to run HDDs.
SATA 3 SSD’s are very much relevant in this day and age. M.2 NVMe is a much fast interface, however you are limited to 1 or 2 m.2 slots on ATX/MATX mobos
I pulled apart a few hard drives the other day and two of them actually had glass discs, are the newer ones just aluminium.
Awesome video very informative two thumbs
The old HDDs like the first ones you opened have a lot of cobalt, gold, , nickel and aluminum. The difference between platinum and palladium is their atomic weight is about the same, but palladium has a blue iridescent luster, where platinum is closer to white. Their use in components is specifically related to how they carried electricity to other components, or in flattens was how they retained magnetic influences from the read write heads. The read write heads were made of a type of spring stainless and had nickle, silver and iron tips. I clip off the ends and process them all in one batch, then separate the residual button. The boards also contain fair amounts of gold plating in the contacts and some of the chips.
Stay out of trouble and get or make a very effective vent hood, a garden variety stove hood is not a positive displacement tool for poisonous fumes.
Get a jar and keep all your screws with your other scrap it adds up quick .
He put them in a bucket
Some amazing vintage drives there. Wherever do you find some of these gems 😂
The read head is a electro magnetic system, as the neodymium magnets where not common in the 1970s or not as strong as today's smaller ones.
I LOVE you videos man!!! SO HELPFUL!
Great Video Ben Keep Bringing The Video's Dude Please Pray For Gabby Petito Family They Found Her Body Yesterday 🙏
They look very difficult to take apart is it worth it or should I sell the hard drive as it is or is that a bad idea
Loved the video mate, thank you!
Those hard drive heads have very fine gold wire in them
neodymniuyiumim 🤣 in my country we do also call aluminium for amelinium
Lol
I've got a board lying around just like the first one you showed. It's from the very first epson laptop
Look at all the tantalum yellow chips on system board of those old hard drives.
I wonder how long it took to put these hard drives together. tHanks for an interesting video
Hi Ben another great video nice content viewing from Singapore
Stay safe bro regard 👍💪💰❤️
For the time being, my yard is buying SSD's as HDD's. We'll see if they create a separate category for SSD's in the future.
thanks man
Hey Ben, just heard about the earthquake there. Hoping all is well my friend.
all good mate, it's gnna take a much bigger quake to slow me down :)
Interesting Bed, thanks for sharing
That was not water but Harddrive fluid similar to blinker fluid. Thanks for sharing....
Use the magnets to hold the tips or screws too
Great video as usual Ben, will you be able to take us all with you on a business pick up in the new van 👍👍
Not at all you’re doing fine. God bless. Kansas
Aluminum coated with copper on the older disks... is what I always heard.
love it
i used to love my old bigfoot hd
Stripping the platinum off of the aluminum disks is overly expensive for the little platinum that is actually on it. Further more, the main body on the larger platters are coated aluminum. Most the smaller ones are a coated glass.
Don't waste your time on the platters. Former HDD developer here. The platters are all aluminium coated with either cobalt or iron oxide. The reddish ones are definitely iron oxide.
Interesting. What do you mean "don't waste your time"? Do you mean they're just aluminum and thus not valuable? Also, can you suggest a good method of removing the motor?
Are you saying the platters are aluminum and I should just through in aluminum scrap?
@Rick Brock yup. Well they obviously have a cobalt or iron oxide plating but the substrate is usually aluminum
Yup those really old ones are iron oxide coated, just aluminum value and the strong magnets to play with. Most of the value is in the logic board itself and the reader head assembly. The ones with the shiny metallic platters are coated with PtCoSm alloys, but very thin...
I would have given you $500 for the 2 big ones and the top left two.
I have some old hard drives, most of what he had on his desk. I'd be will ing to sell.
The future hard drives are going like this WD Blue SN550 1TB NVME M.2 2280 PCIe Gen3 SSD it looks like a strip of ram
Very interesting….. watched this morning while having coffee. Ben…. I know you don’t like to talk about the lock down situation, but I find it very interesting to know what is going on in other parts of the world, especially Australia. Please keep us up to date on the status, because we cannot rely on news broadcast for the actual information. Here in N. Texas, we are pretty much open 100%, all schools open with hardly any “virtual “ learning….. I went to a gun show last weekend and maybe 1 person in 25 was wearing a mask. There is a lot of controversy over the “vaxxxx”. Anyway, thought you might find it interesting. Have a good’un!
I was in Texas last week! Great to go into stores there unlike in New Mexico that's still under communist control. Not so bad though in SE New Mexico.
I melt the platters in a furnace, as aluminium melts at around 660 degrees c. Doing that first means you remove the aluminium (which I use), and any slag would probably contain traces of cobalt, platinum etc, which all melt temperatures higher than 1000 degrees c.
I've kept my slag, as I'm not sure what I could do to extract any of the other metals. I'm sure over time I must be amassing enough slag to get some platinum using acids, but thats not anything I have tried before.
Whats everyone thoughts?
@ERBPlace Sorry I did not mention, I use the aluminium to cast stuff. The slag that has the other metals builds up. Its worth doing at that point as the 0.5% (if that) of platinum is now a more dominant metal, and over time is building up. I may try to see what I can get using acids once I get a high enough amount of slag that no longer has any aluminium content within.
Stay safe, your city looks crazy right now
it's all happening for sure
18:19 haha i thought the print said "subscribe"
That first chunk of aluminum of the first hard drive looked like magnesium.
I thought the same, though I've had some of the early ones where on closer inspection it did appear to be just cast aluminium but with no paint coating. How would you tell as they are practically the same weight? Pure magnesium would react vigorously with water, so it would have to be alloyed, which sounds more expensive than simply using cast aluminium in the first place.
Greetings from the Bourbon Capital of the World.
Bourbon is my poison so god bless
I'm watching,👌👌
Those are certainly some pumped-up kicks, there mate! Nice.
How has it been over in Australia for you Brother? Are you okay?
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I wold keep the hard drive put in Museum because you can't find them no ware like that
Very good video I have 50 to do
23:50 What you're holding contains Aluminum and Iron Oxide. No Gold, Platinum or palladium.
Greetings from the gangster capital of the world (Al Capone's home base Chicago).