What's Inside Hard Drives - Platinum Platters

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  • Опубликовано: 30 окт 2024

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  • @badbadgerz
    @badbadgerz 3 года назад +2

    I'm just getting into scrapping and I found it really helpful to see inside the hard drive. Thank you

  • @escrapchannel
    @escrapchannel 3 года назад +8

    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 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 👍

  • @michaelschuenemann3505
    @michaelschuenemann3505 3 года назад +8

    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 !!!!

  • @josephonesta6416
    @josephonesta6416 3 года назад +1

    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.

  • @sharkscrapper
    @sharkscrapper 3 года назад +3

    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.

  • @shaneyork300
    @shaneyork300 3 года назад +2

    I've been waiting for this video since you picked these up from the hoard & you did not disappoint!
    Great Video!!

  • @shoppy00
    @shoppy00 3 года назад +2

    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.

  • @mikeduke975
    @mikeduke975 3 года назад

    Nothing about this video boring could watch all day. Amazing stuff. Thank you for sharing Ben.

  • @tristangwithian4010
    @tristangwithian4010 3 года назад +1

    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.

  • @poosmate
    @poosmate 3 года назад +1

    Very enjoyable watch, I've never seen what was inside a SSD before. Very interesting. Take care, Poo

  • @christopherleubner6633
    @christopherleubner6633 Год назад +1

    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.

  • @stanleygallman7800
    @stanleygallman7800 3 года назад +1

    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! 😊

  • @bradwelch7425
    @bradwelch7425 2 года назад +2

    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.

  • @zurnchris1002
    @zurnchris1002 3 года назад +1

    Hi Ben! Love both channels! Also loved the one blue and one green shoes your sporting, during the scrap!!

  • @thunderfeetx9280
    @thunderfeetx9280 3 года назад +2

    Another awesome video for scrapping hard drives.

    • @ScrappingwithGrandpa
      @ScrappingwithGrandpa 3 года назад

      It was perfect for me I have about 50 of them to do I was looking for a video just like that

  • @barrywest3758
    @barrywest3758 3 года назад +2

    An educational video indeed. Ben I enjoyed 👍👍

  • @mjkk-nx3mk
    @mjkk-nx3mk 3 года назад

    I enjoyed video. Was interesting to see the hard dives broken down next to each other over time. thanks for takung the time.

  • @jasonbutton3342
    @jasonbutton3342 3 года назад

    great to see inside all the drives, thanks

  • @TECHNICUSChannel
    @TECHNICUSChannel 3 года назад +2

    Oh yeah my favourite scrap- precious metals :) You doing good work

  • @regannyhuis2728
    @regannyhuis2728 3 года назад +1

    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

  • @5pr1nk57
    @5pr1nk57 3 года назад +1

    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!

  • @electronicscrapper4956
    @electronicscrapper4956 3 года назад

    Amazing to see the difference thru the years

  • @scrapitjc
    @scrapitjc 3 года назад +1

    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

  • @susanpiele3372
    @susanpiele3372 3 года назад +2

    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

  • @evriellesmith6659
    @evriellesmith6659 3 года назад

    scraping in the garage good job Ben

  • @progressivedigressor6036
    @progressivedigressor6036 3 года назад +1

    Thumbs up for the magnets, those are nice.

  • @AnalogThinker
    @AnalogThinker 3 года назад +4

    I would argue that you would get so much more selling those to retro enthusiasts rather than getting the copper out of those

  • @johnszurek4507
    @johnszurek4507 3 года назад

    As always, Ben, a great video. What a great review of history!

  • @Alondro77
    @Alondro77 3 года назад +1

    I plan to also recover the chromium and cobalt from the plating alloy. Because chemistry!

  • @JohnnySwedishScrapper
    @JohnnySwedishScrapper 3 года назад +2

    awsome HDD history ;) i have done alot them when i whas young ;)
    great video

  • @Techguide60
    @Techguide60 3 года назад +3

    When you open new hard disk you break the disk but when you open old hard disk you break your hands

  • @ewaste-jd-preciousmetals3723
    @ewaste-jd-preciousmetals3723 3 года назад +1

    Nice videos mate keep helping our Earth from toxic waste going in the landfilds.

  • @fahadrajput2967
    @fahadrajput2967 3 года назад +2

    I always watch your videos

  • @gummyroid
    @gummyroid 3 года назад +3

    Great vid as usual m8, LOOOOVE the shoes, cheers.

  • @Red9GearHeads
    @Red9GearHeads 3 года назад +9

    I already know what’s in these I’m just here to listen to Ben say Neodiniamnum..... 😂 good stuff.

  • @davidranew9776
    @davidranew9776 3 года назад +1

    Great Video Ben Keep Bringing The Video's Dude Please Pray For Gabby Petito Family They Found Her Body Yesterday 🙏

  • @bassmanbilly1969
    @bassmanbilly1969 3 года назад +1

    Thanks for the great video :)

  • @alanl.simmons9726
    @alanl.simmons9726 3 года назад

    I put hose or rubber sleeves on the handle of small screw drivers. It makes it easier to turn out tough screws.

  • @jonnotuckster8856
    @jonnotuckster8856 3 года назад +3

    You should use the magnet to store your torques bits lol 😂

  • @lanitaorjeraldlewisdillorl2258

    WOW! I hope you get a lot of precious metals out of all your hard drives!!

  • @JSuparman
    @JSuparman 3 года назад

    Thanks for sharing Sir.

  • @robgad2271
    @robgad2271 Год назад

    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.

  • @TheUltimateRecycler
    @TheUltimateRecycler 3 года назад +1

    Gee, haven't the boards changed over time?! Nice video Ben 👍😊

  • @CandSMINING
    @CandSMINING 3 года назад

    Great information. Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us.😎⛏⛏🔥🔥

  • @ScrappingwithGrandpa
    @ScrappingwithGrandpa 3 года назад +1

    I have never seen one with the clips on it yet that is the first one very interesting ben

  • @shanesuthy
    @shanesuthy 3 года назад

    love it history of hard drives

  • @SollersScrappingandDiving
    @SollersScrappingandDiving 3 года назад

    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!!!!😀👍

  • @josephcormier5974
    @josephcormier5974 3 года назад

    Awesome video very informative two thumbs

  • @headerahelix
    @headerahelix 3 года назад +1

    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.

    • @cheapcharlie7
      @cheapcharlie7 2 года назад

      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

  • @RedeyeCountry
    @RedeyeCountry 3 года назад +3

    those doves are noisy, we have them here in NZ

  • @SollersScrappingandDiving
    @SollersScrappingandDiving 3 года назад

    I'd love to see you get those copper coloured hard drive disks tested too!!

  • @kingspokelife5118
    @kingspokelife5118 Год назад

    I LOVE you videos man!!! SO HELPFUL!

  • @tawnihaynie1065
    @tawnihaynie1065 3 года назад +2

    Good video Ben. Please stay safe and take care. Ttyl my friend. ☺☺☺😇😇😇

  • @bobspistolsandpaydirt8607
    @bobspistolsandpaydirt8607 3 года назад +3

    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!

    • @jameyforrest8966
      @jameyforrest8966 3 года назад

      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.

  • @goldmagnet
    @goldmagnet 2 года назад

    I pulled apart a few hard drives the other day and two of them actually had glass discs, are the newer ones just aluminium.

  • @geoffupton
    @geoffupton 3 года назад +1

    interesting, very interesting 😊

  • @uooello13
    @uooello13 3 года назад +3

    neodymniuyiumim 🤣 in my country we do also call aluminium for amelinium

  • @richardroyles1423
    @richardroyles1423 3 года назад +1

    Not at all you’re doing fine. God bless. Kansas

  • @CamposGaspar
    @CamposGaspar 2 года назад

    Very cool. Very educative.

  • @theresefreeland3762
    @theresefreeland3762 3 года назад +1

    Get a jar and keep all your screws with your other scrap it adds up quick .

  • @ProjectDIYOz
    @ProjectDIYOz 3 года назад

    Loved the video mate, thank you!

  • @luizCarlos-us1gv
    @luizCarlos-us1gv 3 года назад +2

    👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

  • @Foolish188
    @Foolish188 3 года назад +1

    "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.

  • @bassmanbilly1969
    @bassmanbilly1969 3 года назад

    Look at all the tantalum yellow chips on system board of those old hard drives.

  • @adventureswithttfncachn3967
    @adventureswithttfncachn3967 3 года назад

    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.

  • @joesask857
    @joesask857 3 года назад

    thanks man

  • @RSFred555
    @RSFred555 3 года назад

    That was not water but Harddrive fluid similar to blinker fluid. Thanks for sharing....

  • @baharuddinbesah3709
    @baharuddinbesah3709 3 года назад +1

    Hi Ben another great video nice content viewing from Singapore
    Stay safe bro regard 👍💪💰❤️

  • @horacepinker6578
    @horacepinker6578 3 года назад

    Those hard drive heads have very fine gold wire in them

  • @colinhamer6506
    @colinhamer6506 3 года назад +2

    you were half way through saying something about laptop ones is there anything good still in them

  • @LutzSchafer
    @LutzSchafer 2 года назад +2

    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.

    • @rabarber9610
      @rabarber9610 2 года назад

      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?

    • @goldensadventures1229
      @goldensadventures1229 Год назад

      Are you saying the platters are aluminum and I should just through in aluminum scrap?

    • @LutzSchafer
      @LutzSchafer Год назад

      @Rick Brock yup. Well they obviously have a cobalt or iron oxide plating but the substrate is usually aluminum

    • @christopherleubner6633
      @christopherleubner6633 Год назад +1

      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...

  • @ChristopherWoods
    @ChristopherWoods 3 года назад

    Some amazing vintage drives there. Wherever do you find some of these gems 😂

  • @ROBERTSCOIN
    @ROBERTSCOIN 3 года назад

    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

  • @DaveL0120
    @DaveL0120 3 года назад

    Use the magnets to hold the tips or screws too

  • @shanexcs3810
    @shanexcs3810 3 года назад

    Stay safe, your city looks crazy right now

    • @eWasteBen
      @eWasteBen  3 года назад +1

      it's all happening for sure

  • @scrapwomblecreatives6944
    @scrapwomblecreatives6944 3 года назад

    i used to love my old bigfoot hd

  • @judybeckner9047
    @judybeckner9047 3 года назад

    Interesting Bed, thanks for sharing

  • @goldscrapurbanmining
    @goldscrapurbanmining 3 года назад

    👍👍

  • @michaelsadventures4261
    @michaelsadventures4261 3 года назад +1

    Greetings from the Bourbon Capital of the World.

    • @eWasteBen
      @eWasteBen  3 года назад +1

      Bourbon is my poison so god bless

  • @ScrappingwithGrandpa
    @ScrappingwithGrandpa 3 года назад +1

    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

  • @richard-l448
    @richard-l448 3 года назад

    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?

    • @richard-l448
      @richard-l448 3 года назад

      @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.

  • @jamescebuscavenger2872
    @jamescebuscavenger2872 3 года назад

    I'm watching,👌👌

  • @wolfonthehill5134
    @wolfonthehill5134 3 года назад

    Aluminum coated with copper on the older disks... is what I always heard.

  • @johnhoughton339
    @johnhoughton339 3 года назад +1

    Do you know of resources for processing the old gold and chocolate colored platters, I can't find any videos on it.

  • @greekgods3399
    @greekgods3399 3 года назад

    love it

  • @sharkscrapper
    @sharkscrapper 3 года назад

    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.

  • @stephenjohnson2195
    @stephenjohnson2195 3 года назад

    Great video as usual Ben, will you be able to take us all with you on a business pick up in the new van 👍👍

  • @ScrappingwithGrandpa
    @ScrappingwithGrandpa 3 года назад +1

    Very good video I have 50 to do

  • @TechGorilla1987
    @TechGorilla1987 3 года назад +1

    Those are certainly some pumped-up kicks, there mate! Nice.

  • @evileyemcgaming
    @evileyemcgaming 3 года назад

    I wold keep the hard drive put in Museum because you can't find them no ware like that

  • @ИванИванов-ш2т9р
    @ИванИванов-ш2т9р Год назад +1

    Отличный пример что брать!

  • @excitedbox5705
    @excitedbox5705 3 года назад +2

    I would have given you $500 for the 2 big ones and the top left two.

    • @Newmath907
      @Newmath907 3 года назад +1

      I have some old hard drives, most of what he had on his desk. I'd be will ing to sell.

  • @scrapman502
    @scrapman502 3 года назад

    23:50 What you're holding contains Aluminum and Iron Oxide. No Gold, Platinum or palladium.

  • @Dancing_Alone_wRentals
    @Dancing_Alone_wRentals 3 года назад +1

    I wonder how long it took to put these hard drives together. tHanks for an interesting video

  • @Michael-db1ce
    @Michael-db1ce 3 года назад

    That first chunk of aluminum of the first hard drive looked like magnesium.

    • @tristangwithian4010
      @tristangwithian4010 3 года назад

      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.

  • @modela4096
    @modela4096 2 года назад

    Greetings from the gangster capital of the world (Al Capone's home base Chicago).

  • @evriellesmith6659
    @evriellesmith6659 3 года назад

    Isn't it funny to think someone setting at a work station said hay lets make this thing and see if it works make sure your kids go to school

  • @kashewz
    @kashewz 3 года назад

    18:19 haha i thought the print said "subscribe"

  • @BullProspecting
    @BullProspecting 3 года назад

    How has it been over in Australia for you Brother? Are you okay?

  • @ambersally7509
    @ambersally7509 3 года назад

    How much are Ryobi tools across the pond?