My father ran his own computer consulting business for many years (and introduced me to a lot about tech and computer hardware). He passed away last year, and while he did not leave much behind, I did find a few stacks of hard drives in his basement. I know he used to use them for everything from personal computers to servers for his clients, who were mostly small businesses in the tri-state area. Most of these hard drives were purchased, used, then returned to him for one reason or another. Many are still in their packaging.
The hard drive manufacturing dates range from 2011 to 2018, mostly western digital or seagate, mostly 1-2 TB in size. Over the past few months, I've been checking each one with HWinfo, formatting the ones that had data on them, and doing a full drive wipe on each with CCleaner. I'm now in the process of recording all the info (drive size, manufacturing date, serial number, etc.) My cousin mentioned that there's a market for used/older hard drives that are still in good condition. Is this true? And if so, are there specific sites I could sell to or specific places I could take the hard drives to? If this isn't a thin, I'd rather just take them to get recycled if that's the case, but I wouldn't mind some extra cash from selling them. I have no other need for them and don't work in the networking business.
The hard drive manufacturing dates range from 2011 to 2018, mostly western digital or seagate, mostly 1-2 TB in size. Over the past few months, I've been checking each one with HWinfo, formatting the ones that had data on them, and doing a full drive wipe on each with CCleaner. I'm now in the process of recording all the info (drive size, manufacturing date, serial number, etc.) My cousin mentioned that there's a market for used/older hard drives that are still in good condition. Is this true? And if so, are there specific sites I could sell to or specific places I could take the hard drives to? If this isn't a thin, I'd rather just take them to get recycled if that's the case, but I wouldn't mind some extra cash from selling them. I have no other need for them and don't work in the networking business.