500000 hard disks drive scrap HDD gold recovery

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  • 500000 Hard disks drive scrap HDD gold recovery scrapping
    ‪@MakeGold‬ 👉 / archimedeschannel
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    A hard disk drive (HDD), hard disk, hard drive, or fixed disk is an electro-mechanical data storage device that stores and retrieves digital data using magnetic storage and one or more rigid rapidly rotating platters coated with magnetic material. The platters are paired with magnetic heads, usually arranged on a moving actuator arm, which read and write data to the platter surfaces. Data is accessed in a random-access manner, meaning that individual blocks of data can be stored and retrieved in any order. HDDs are a type of non-volatile storage, retaining stored data even when powered off. Modern HDDs are typically in the form of a small rectangular box.
    1:33 fragments of gold from the solution
    2:01 i then used a magnet from a hard disk
    3:07 aqua regia onto the gold fragments being
    4:49 then i completely dried the gold
    6:12 these are the gold particles removed by
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  • @MakeGold
    @MakeGold  2 года назад +55

    👉👉👉 gold recycling from the hard disk reader This belongs to the factory sound. It's very rare and a rare chance to see it in large quantities. for compiling from old hard disks or audio It takes a lot of time and effort. I hope it is a guide and useful for someone who is mining gold from electronic waste.
    🌟Thank you for watching the video🌟

  • @chrissettles4127
    @chrissettles4127 2 года назад +47

    This is from 500, 000 hard drives . I have been recycling for 3 years with two helpers with a pickup truck and two cities and only have a couple hundred hard drives for free . If they got 500,000 it's for a corporate business. They took the one part most pure in gold on the reader arm . All the chips and gold connectors from the rest of the 500,000 hard drives would get another chuck like that but it is more labor. It's only worth it if everything is 100% free products. It's not cost effective unless you melt down tons and get all gold silver and palladium. And copper the most metal in electronics. No one brings up the copper and you would have more than 5000 dollars in copper from 500,000 drives.

    • @Reasonist
      @Reasonist 2 года назад +5

      And aluminium. 500,000 HD chassis’s would be a killer payday in aluminum

    • @weareliverpoolfc
      @weareliverpoolfc Год назад +2

      thats why he have youtube

    • @edwardspencer9397
      @edwardspencer9397 Год назад

      Those are 25 million dollars worth of hard drives. Assuming 10% is only saleable metal, he could have easily made 2.5 million dollars.

    • @frankbinsley6221
      @frankbinsley6221 Год назад +3

      @@edwardspencer9397 would you show your math? Curious how you came to that sum. Thanks

    • @ThePatriotPirate
      @ThePatriotPirate Год назад +1

      10 cents per hard drive.😊

  • @toolazy4names302
    @toolazy4names302 2 года назад +107

    I'd never thought I'd see the day someone would find value in a western digital green drive

  • @burriedhistory
    @burriedhistory 2 года назад +21

    Wow, that is a stunning chunk of gold!

  • @davidmiles4678
    @davidmiles4678 Год назад +16

    Awesome video! That’s a lot of gold must have been a lot of work hours and material for that much return.

  • @TheBest-ee5hk
    @TheBest-ee5hk 2 года назад +8

    Well done you did very well can you show please how to recover platinum from scrap in a video

  • @arnedalbakk6315
    @arnedalbakk6315 2 года назад +3

    Very Nice clip sir😊
    Thanks

  • @jewellerydesignerartists9353
    @jewellerydesignerartists9353 Год назад +7

    Beautiful work

  • @yahshua4592
    @yahshua4592 Год назад +8

    You’d probably make far more money dumping the data on the drives before scrapping them for an added bonus

  • @AlexZawodniak
    @AlexZawodniak Год назад +13

    You’ve got yourself over $5,000 worth of gold!

    • @silversharkc4666
      @silversharkc4666 Год назад +3

      They sell recovered gold like this on ebay for like 7-8 bucks a gram. LOL!

    • @stevensmith8285
      @stevensmith8285 7 месяцев назад +1

      That’s unrefined gold that sells for $8

    • @gusdeeks8801
      @gusdeeks8801 5 месяцев назад

      Looks like a Shed load of copper in amongst the *Gold*.... Plus Where did the silver go?

  • @Squee_666_9
    @Squee_666_9 Год назад +8

    Lol I like how careful you are removing the arm like you are planning on using the hard drive again or something

    • @Elleboogie621
      @Elleboogie621 Год назад +2

      He took this vid. from someone else. The rest of the vid. frame for frame (from mixing of chemicals til the end) is not about hard drives. B.S.!

  • @wayneburbrink1215
    @wayneburbrink1215 2 года назад +10

    That’s a chunk of gold wow 🤩

  • @ukskywatcher9598
    @ukskywatcher9598 2 года назад +15

    Wow that's a hell of a lot of hard drives to get that well done nice work 😇🙏🍀

  • @nftacitzakyeart1698
    @nftacitzakyeart1698 2 года назад +1

    Amazing 😲✌️ smart work😎✌️

  • @melvondoty4572
    @melvondoty4572 2 года назад +1

    he'll yeah..tks.. I got a bucket full of old computerboards. been soaking in vinegar and hydrogen peroxide for almost a month now.. tks for the tip on getting it to settle

  • @jimm2297
    @jimm2297 Год назад +8

    I find it hard to believe that any operation would receive, accumulate 500, 000 hard drives, before they would recover the precious metals.

    • @tomspeed2000
      @tomspeed2000 Год назад +3

      I used 50 desktop pc HD from everything inside, chips, pins.. connectors .. the result was around 1,3g Gold, i was busy around 2 days nonstop stripping the part’s..had more than 30kg aluminum $ iron metals..the average weight for 500,000 pc hhd will be around: 350000kg

    • @jameysummers1577
      @jameysummers1577 7 месяцев назад +1

      @@tomspeed2000 So do you mean you were only able to make about $70 from 50 computers?

  • @ilikegaming2738
    @ilikegaming2738 8 месяцев назад

    Much though,, process i know very much easy way to recover the gold , but your hardworking is appreciable 👍👍

  • @patrickguillory-yy2gu
    @patrickguillory-yy2gu 2 месяца назад +1

    That is a nice chunk of gold ( 6000 dollars )💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯

  • @aliminingcompany
    @aliminingcompany 5 месяцев назад

    Superb work! Keep it up!

  • @svenssonefternamn7044
    @svenssonefternamn7044 2 года назад +2

    Damn how many hard drives is that?

  • @nickitoff9629
    @nickitoff9629 8 месяцев назад

    Wow! That was fun to watch. Nice work!

  • @g-dcomplex1609
    @g-dcomplex1609 Год назад +1

    i really like the induction furnace

  • @Bianchi77
    @Bianchi77 2 года назад +3

    Thanks for sharing, keep it up:)

  • @anil4nature
    @anil4nature Год назад

    Wonderful 👏👌👌😍

  • @user-br1so6dw6z
    @user-br1so6dw6z 8 месяцев назад

    This is it if the best videos I've seen..❤

  • @khozabenhamid9745
    @khozabenhamid9745 2 года назад +1

    Has anyone try to check new SD compartment?? How many gold in that stuff??

  • @moein8946
    @moein8946 9 дней назад

    Thank you Sir. Very good. Be health and success ❤❤❤

  • @stephenbrinckerhoff3510
    @stephenbrinckerhoff3510 9 месяцев назад +2

    That's what you got from scrapping one-half million HDDs? You got determination but there are better ways and better use of time.

  • @matthewhartley8756
    @matthewhartley8756 Год назад

    Old kind of hard drives are getting but no new hard drive-in this daying age has that much golden anymore

  • @GeorgiKolevN
    @GeorgiKolevN Год назад +14

    Did you ever had that thought, when chopping those 500K HDDs ... that maybe in just one of them was a folder, just one folder named "Bitcoin", and inside it was another folder named "Wallet" ... Just imagine that !!
    Now picture this...
    Inside that Wallet folder were 500K Bitcoins, from someone who lost his HDD, because his mom was not happy about a sacond folder named "Porn" when trying to use the PC, in which that HDD was located at some point in space and time...

    • @user-md8wh6sx2l
      @user-md8wh6sx2l 6 месяцев назад

      You making up story's bro, No Bitcoin here, Where did that come from??

  • @factorylad5071
    @factorylad5071 2 года назад +1

    Good work. Now what are you going to do with 500,000 bird scarers?

  • @Masculoman
    @Masculoman Год назад +4

    Imagino quantos HD ele deve ter desmontado para ter essa quantidade de ouro....

  • @alphastream1
    @alphastream1 Год назад +3

    500 000 hard drive disk for 81 gram gold ? only ?

  • @charleshines8523
    @charleshines8523 Год назад +1

    by the time you have gone through that many you might get a bit of other precious metals from the platters.

    • @bobertjones2300
      @bobertjones2300 Год назад

      Don't forget the magnets which may some resale value.

  • @jonathansonnier3078
    @jonathansonnier3078 7 месяцев назад

    Prob 95% pure great work
    You should purify the gold and make a video

  • @biegiemdocelu
    @biegiemdocelu Год назад +1

    Wow! Greetings from Poland ✋👍

  • @BootyHarvest
    @BootyHarvest 2 года назад +1

    Imagine taking and storing ppls' memories in the form of hard drives?

  • @joaquimcotrim3099
    @joaquimcotrim3099 2 года назад +2

    Excellent ok

  • @aaronthompson2095
    @aaronthompson2095 2 года назад

    Good video, are you going to do a video for the hard drive pins

  • @darrinfry2251
    @darrinfry2251 Год назад

    Great, now where can I find 600 hard drives at ?

  • @byhellboyci
    @byhellboyci 6 месяцев назад

    Is there a cheap way to extract gold, without finishing the process?

  • @gipadang9815
    @gipadang9815 2 года назад +1

    What? U only pick that Tiny part for gold, what happened with all broke hdd?

  • @whateversmurfette
    @whateversmurfette 2 года назад

    please please tell me you recovered the rhodium from the ends

  • @wildingnemo5869
    @wildingnemo5869 Год назад

    Why did he put it in acid after extraction was it still not pure when they were in the black rag?

  • @rangerwriter
    @rangerwriter 2 года назад +12

    That is insane!
    How many hours did you spend getting the parts out of those 500000 hard drives? and how much was the gold worth in total?

    • @teamSHTF
      @teamSHTF 2 года назад +4

      They didn't. That was factory parts. It can be done but it'll take many many hours of labor to harvest the little contacts. They should have explained that while showing where the parts they used came from on an assembled hard drive.

    • @aredditor4272
      @aredditor4272 2 года назад +7

      81.4 grams of pure gold is worth $4,966.23 on feb 20, 2022, but his gold is possibly not 3 9s fine. Buyers may not always buy at spot price. Depends on the market and the buyer. At 500000 pieces, that's less than 1 cent per hard drive. That assumes his title isn't in error.

    • @mmario1409
      @mmario1409 2 года назад +4

      For 500.000 hard drives...is not worth 4000$...only as a hoby..takes probably few years to colect 500.000 hard drives..but i think is much more other pieces they contain gold and much more gold than hard drives..even all the pins..the procesors etc..and many more..

  • @mrwang420
    @mrwang420 2 года назад +1

    81.4 grams. Thats like $5000 Nice haul.

  • @radiocomponent
    @radiocomponent 2 года назад +3

    Супер! Я давно писал , что в головках жёстких дисков есть золото.
    Super! I wrote a long time ago that there is gold in the heads of hard drives.

    • @MakeGold
      @MakeGold  2 года назад +3

      Excellent, but takes time to gather, very difficult

    • @radiocomponent
      @radiocomponent 2 года назад +1

      @@MakeGold I understand, I dismantled 280 computers myself and I'm just typing these information readers.

    • @noway8233
      @noway8233 2 года назад +1

      Yes there are but in very little cuantitys so its not profitable at this level (yuo need a ton of waste to be)

    • @radiocomponent
      @radiocomponent 2 года назад +1

      @@noway8233 I collect any gilding, the main thing is that it should be on the details. Gaining a kilogram will get some gold, but this gold can cover silver and it will be beautiful.
      Я собираю любую позолоту, главное чтобы она была на деталях. Набрав килограмм получим немного золота, но этим золотом можно покрыть серебро и будет красиво.

    • @radiocomponent
      @radiocomponent 2 года назад

      @@noway8233 10 milligrams is enough for me for gilding a small area. And I don't care where I can get the gilded material, thanks for your comment.

  • @yoserbmon6827
    @yoserbmon6827 Год назад +1

    60 million hard drives and a couple lives invested in harvesting the gold... and maybe it would even be enough for a rapper's neck chain

  • @user-ri3tz7wd1i
    @user-ri3tz7wd1i 11 месяцев назад

    Very nice video

  • @ralphferrara5152
    @ralphferrara5152 Год назад

    Very interesting. What carat of gold is that when you're done?

  • @ahmedfares7985
    @ahmedfares7985 2 года назад +1

    This is from 500000hard drive ??

  • @becreative6503
    @becreative6503 Год назад

    nice knowledgeable

  • @jahangiralis2827
    @jahangiralis2827 29 дней назад

    Please also mention weight of hard disk and. What u gain ?

  • @marklestergamayon4082
    @marklestergamayon4082 Год назад

    Wow Gold nice 😮

  • @Rob337_aka_CancelProof
    @Rob337_aka_CancelProof Год назад +1

    I noticed at the end your Ingot for lack of a better word look to have some purple in it which could be just an optical anomaly from the camera but it also could be a little bit of aluminum alloyed with your gold which would put it around 90% gold and 10% of aluminum it's kind of useless losing all of the good qualities of either gold or aluminum but still interesting nonetheless because purple gold is what you get when you alloy aluminum with gold it has no practical uses except for sometimes is used Like a Stone because (it's an intermetallic with physical properties more similar to Stone than a metal) and although nobody really intentionally does that it is on rare occasions sometimes used in jewelry not as a ring but as a stone in a gold setting if cut and faceted and Polished correctly it has a very pleasant look

    • @gqmonster976
      @gqmonster976 Год назад

      so its not possible to un-alloy certain metals?

  • @saint27573
    @saint27573 9 месяцев назад

    How do you get so much electronic scrap ?

  • @andrxox.
    @andrxox. 2 года назад

    Super👍👌

  • @MyScreenNameIsTroubledOne
    @MyScreenNameIsTroubledOne 8 месяцев назад

    You got 81 grams of gold out of those itty bitty foils? Wow man. That’s ALOT more gold than anyone else ever seems to be able to get from that stuff. 😑

  • @morganmadida9796
    @morganmadida9796 2 года назад +1

    1,6kg produced 81 grams?

  • @ssbsts312
    @ssbsts312 Год назад

    Tweaker hears the birds chirping.... bed two bro

  • @jasonmeloche
    @jasonmeloche Год назад

    Surely you people can't think this man amassed 500,000 actual hard drives??! Those gold stripes are purchased online in bulk sales from another company that hires much less paid workers that do all the dismantling of the product somewhere overseas due to manufacturers over ordering materials or no longer manufacturing a specific model etc.. thus creating a surplus that needs to be liquidated quickly so that the company can recoup fair market price value in case market price was to fluctuate with volatility hence one way to lose out as well as cash flow to purchase new precious metals required for existing and or new builds on the table as some of these companies end up tying lots of their operating cost on these "higher priced" components

  • @daveyingram8934
    @daveyingram8934 6 месяцев назад

    how long does it take to take 500000 hard drives apart?

  • @istvanabonyi6068
    @istvanabonyi6068 10 месяцев назад

    please write exactly what materials you use, thx.

  • @josephanthony1655
    @josephanthony1655 Год назад

    What was the purity ?

  • @johnny_roxx
    @johnny_roxx 2 года назад

    How much did you make after the cost of the hard drives? How much where the drives? I'm guessing 50 cents to one dollar each?

    • @nickh7777
      @nickh7777 Год назад +1

      No kidding right? How does someone get other people to commit 50 hard drives for free, let alone 500,000?

  • @RioSantana1
    @RioSantana1 12 дней назад

    What were those little things he dissolved

  • @basharatali42
    @basharatali42 2 года назад

    I like this job and this

  • @stone_-_man
    @stone_-_man Год назад

    Very good ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

  • @user-kg5oj6wm8u
    @user-kg5oj6wm8u 2 года назад

    Like 👍 👌

  • @andrewk1294
    @andrewk1294 2 года назад +2

    How is one to get all these hard drives ?

    • @aredditor4272
      @aredditor4272 2 года назад

      Looks like he bought unused stock from a manufacturer, meaning they weren't ever installed into hard drives.

  • @milehighnative8509
    @milehighnative8509 Год назад

    Was wondering if I could send you things to recover the gold out of….. a way for you to add more content as well lmk please

  • @mrjjwaliya
    @mrjjwaliya 2 года назад

    Hello My Dear friend , i am really appreciate you, now I am also interested to recover gold like this way, can you please help me, please tell me that how many types of chemical we need to use and what's a type of material that can we recover gold in them. Please share your email that I can ask if I face any doubt or questions, Thank you my Friend 🙏

  • @metinsara2362
    @metinsara2362 Год назад

    What are the stages of obtaining gold from the hard drive in this video. Can you write the details of how to do it and send it to me. Where can I get the materials used to obtain this gold?

  • @patrickguillory-yy2gu
    @patrickguillory-yy2gu 2 месяца назад +1

    This is worth your time❤️💯🙏………..81 grams gold is a 6000 dollars and some change.💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯

    • @MakeGold
      @MakeGold  Месяц назад +2

      You make a fair point. The potential financial gain from recovering 81 grams of gold, which could be worth around $6,000 at current market prices, is enticing. However, we have to carefully consider the risks and costs involved in pursuing this kind of precious metal extraction from electronic components.
      As we discussed, the processes required, such as using extremely corrosive acids like aqua regia and dealing with hazardous fumes, present serious health and safety hazards. Proper protective equipment, fume hoods, and approved hazardous waste disposal are an absolute necessity and very expensive for an individual to implement safely.
      Additionally, the source materials containing tiny amounts of gold, like gathering 500,000 hard drives you mentioned earlier, would require a monumental effort and likely cost more to acquire than the gold value recovered.
      So while the raw dollar value of the recovered gold is meaningful, the risks, costs of doing it properly, and scale required to make it worthwhile financially are likely prohibitive unless you have access to an industrial-scale precious metal refining operation.
      For an individual, it is probably wiser to avoid these kinds of hazardous extraction methods altogether. Recycling e-waste through legitimate regulated refiners is a much safer option, even if the personal financial gain is lower. Health, safety and environmental compliance should take precedence over pursuing relatively small amounts of precious metals through risky means. Let me know if you have any other thoughts on this.

    • @patrickguillory-yy2gu
      @patrickguillory-yy2gu Месяц назад

      @@MakeGold I 100% agree with you….. I’m retired at home looking for fun hobbies, sitting around home with not much to do is hard.

    • @patrickguillory-yy2gu
      @patrickguillory-yy2gu Месяц назад

      @@MakeGold Another thing whenever you see that beautiful gold, I got gold fever❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😍😍😍😍😍😍🤩🤩🤩🤩😋🤩🤩🤩

  • @RcNerd
    @RcNerd 9 месяцев назад +1

    No gold specialist will touch it.

  • @jameswheeler7237
    @jameswheeler7237 Год назад

    that is 2.85719 oz. is that worth the labor??

  • @sexytiktoker3275
    @sexytiktoker3275 Год назад

    how much you spent for chemicals for this project?

  • @bitsofeverything8385
    @bitsofeverything8385 Год назад +2

    500k hdd's? Youd have a lot more in aluminium

  • @user-ed5wv7fb3y
    @user-ed5wv7fb3y 2 года назад

    Ничо себе 🤯 выход из импорта!)))

    • @TV-bj7pw
      @TV-bj7pw 2 года назад

      Тебе не показалось, что это пиздешь...

    • @TV-bj7pw
      @TV-bj7pw 2 года назад +1

      Такой же по ходу как Максимов ро

    • @user-ed5wv7fb3y
      @user-ed5wv7fb3y 2 года назад

      @@TV-bj7pw ето да!))) Но у него уже горы из зла!)))

    • @user-fk1ex5nb3b
      @user-fk1ex5nb3b 2 года назад

      Если 500 тысяч дисков, то с одного всего 0,0001628. Бедный импорт взял большим количеством....

  • @radekcermak3848
    @radekcermak3848 Год назад

    it's the most beautiful hobby in the world!

  • @sarachitamang6840
    @sarachitamang6840 Год назад

    Sir whatyou du ?hard disks after recover gold ? please sir

  • @vidya126
    @vidya126 2 года назад

    after adding smb to aqua regia it turn black for a second then come normal. Nitric acid is neutral.there is no reaction after adding urea. Please reply.

    • @MakeGold
      @MakeGold  2 года назад

      Urea does not precipitate gold.

  • @zamistro
    @zamistro Год назад

    That was from half a million hard drives?

  • @MichaelClark-uw7ex
    @MichaelClark-uw7ex 9 месяцев назад

    You know those hard disk platters contain Platinum. don't you?

  • @60Secondscreative
    @60Secondscreative 2 года назад

    Can we use urea in impossibility to use sodium metabisulfate ?

  • @Meteorite-CaliforniumIron
    @Meteorite-CaliforniumIron Год назад

    Nice

  • @SalzBerg793
    @SalzBerg793 Год назад +1

    What is its value number after melting ? 8K or less ?

    • @nickandyou1470
      @nickandyou1470 Год назад

      less , 5k i'd say

    • @SalzBerg793
      @SalzBerg793 Год назад

      @@nickandyou1470 ok

    • @abeleverson6949
      @abeleverson6949 6 месяцев назад

      If done properly 24K gold is the final product when chemically refining gold. The nitric acid should dissolve nearly all of the the base metals and washing it with concentrated sulfuric will remove any lead that is present. When you dissolve the gold foils in Aqua Regia and precipitate it out of solution you will get gold that is 99.95% pure.

  • @thepetrarcticwar2778
    @thepetrarcticwar2778 Год назад

    The aqua regia step was redundant!

  • @tinamitchell8735
    @tinamitchell8735 2 года назад

    Remember you need the silver

  • @dilipkumar-ck1nc
    @dilipkumar-ck1nc Год назад

    What about the purity of the gold

  • @gjohgj
    @gjohgj Год назад +2

    imagine he did this 500000 times

  • @chilpeeps
    @chilpeeps 2 года назад +2

    if one hdd is around 30 usd
    500000*30 usd= 15000000 usd
    81 gram gold would cost around =4722 usd

    • @MaxStudioCG2023
      @MaxStudioCG2023 Год назад

      who give you 30 dollars? :))))) even if you ask for 1 dollar nobody give a shit for crap ....these days people searching for ssd m2

    • @chilpeeps
      @chilpeeps Год назад +1

      @@MaxStudioCG2023 there was time when getting 1 tb hdd was a dream for gamers time goes fast they say .

    • @MaxStudioCG2023
      @MaxStudioCG2023 Год назад

      @@chilpeeps yea well now 1tb is nothing

  • @gunaguna4339
    @gunaguna4339 2 года назад

    Bro put toch light gold recovery 🤙😎

  • @mikecrystalrobert7898
    @mikecrystalrobert7898 6 месяцев назад

    Now I just need 500,000 hard drives an to become a chemist

  • @KainisDarc
    @KainisDarc 5 месяцев назад

    I got one stupid question in here, why bits can not be just melted straight away after collecting them?
    Its confusing for me to understand why it have to be chemicaly turned into dirt looking powder before been melted into golden button.
    Wish to understand better

    • @MakeGold
      @MakeGold  4 месяца назад +2

      The raw material contains many types of metals. Different metals have different chemical effects. We use chemicals. to remove unwanted metals to leave the metal we need such as gold etc.

    • @RioSantana1
      @RioSantana1 3 дня назад

      @@MakeGold what were those little things you were sifting

  • @memechannels76
    @memechannels76 2 года назад

    Without urea?

  • @mclc4327
    @mclc4327 2 года назад +1

    Where can you get an incduction heater like that?

  • @ashishjindal6382
    @ashishjindal6382 Год назад

    did you really put your hand in nitric acid ???

  • @INDKFGC
    @INDKFGC Год назад

    How many bitcoins were in those drives?

  • @arifulislam2778
    @arifulislam2778 2 года назад

    Thanks