SATA
2.5" read-intensive and mixed-use, 240GB through 7.68TB. Samsung PM883/PM893, Intel D3-S4510/S4610, Micron 5300 and 5400.
SATA, SAS and NVMe — U.2, U.3, M.2 and E1.S, 240GB through 30TB. Ten drives out of one chassis or a pallet out of a cluster refresh.
Whole chassis-loads, partial refreshes, or the drives left over once you have pulled what you are keeping.
2.5" read-intensive and mixed-use, 240GB through 7.68TB. Samsung PM883/PM893, Intel D3-S4510/S4610, Micron 5300 and 5400.
12Gb dual-port, 800GB through 15.36TB. Samsung PM1643/PM1653, Kioxia PM6, Seagate Nytro. Still the backbone of a lot of arrays.
The strongest per-drive numbers on this page. Intel/Solidigm P-series, Samsung PM9A3 and PM1733, Kioxia CD6 and CM6, Micron 7450.
Boot drives, BOSS cards and ruler form factors. Smaller money each, but they add up across a rack and we take them with the rest.
Dell, HPE, Lenovo, Cisco and NetApp firmware. We buy these as readily as generic units — the badge moves the number in both directions depending on the model.
Leave them in. Sleds and caddies add to the line rather than getting in the way, and the drives travel better mounted.
We price each drive on what it is worth back in service. Specification drives the offer — nothing here is weighed.
The biggest single split. NVMe generally leads, SAS and SATA follow, and the gap between them moves with what the market is short of.
Not linear. The larger capacities carry the strongest per-drive numbers, and the smallest ones are worth having mainly in volume.
Mixed-use and write-intensive drives carry a higher rating than read-intensive, and price accordingly at the same capacity.
How much of the rated endurance is left. If you can pull the wear indicator from your monitoring, send it — it lets us price tighter and firmer.
A drive in its Dell or HPE caddy is worth more than a bare one, and U.3 versus U.2 versus E1.S is a different buyer for the same capacity.
Forty matched drives out of one refresh price better per drive than forty of assorted models, capacities and ages.
The route changes with the size of the lot. What does not change is that we pay for it and you approve the number first.
Under a pallet, we email you a prepaid parcel label. Box the drives in their caddies or anti-static sleeves, pad the carton, and hand it over. Nothing to pay and nothing to arrange.
We supply pallets, wrap and straps, book the carrier, and issue the bill of lading ahead of pickup. Insured in transit at the agreed offer value.
If pulling them is a job you would rather not do, tell us — in selected metros we do it on site, and everywhere else we can price the chassis with the drives in it.
Sleeves or caddies, never bare and never loose. Padding between layers. It costs nothing and it is the difference between a clean check-in and a revised offer.
We check every shipment against the agreed list on arrival, tell you what we found, and pay by ACH — typically the same business day it lands.
Sleeved, layered, padded
No. Ten drives pulled from one chassis is a normal order, and so is a pallet. Small lots ship on a prepaid label we send you; larger lots go by freight we arrange and pay for. Same offer process either way.
Per drive, on what it is worth back in service — capacity, interface, endurance class, remaining life and whether it comes with a caddy. Nothing is weighed and nothing is averaged across the lot.
Because two drives showing the same capacity can be worth very different money once interface, endurance rating and remaining life are taken into account. Any published figure would be wrong for most people.
Yes, and it is worth telling us. A drive with most of its rated endurance left is worth more than the same model close to the end of it. If you can pull the wear indicator or remaining-life figure from your monitoring, include it — if not, we will assess on arrival and the offer accounts for it.
Both. Mixed-use and write-intensive drives carry the higher endurance rating and usually the stronger number, but read-intensive drives are the volume of most refreshes and sell perfectly well.
U.2, U.3, M.2 and E1.S all fine, as are add-in cards. Tell us which — the connector matters more than it looks, and an E1.S ruler is a different buyer to a U.2.
No. We buy drives that were working when they came out of service, because we sell them on to be used again. If part of the lot is questionable, flag it when you send the list rather than shipping it and hoping.
ACH once the shipment is checked in against the agreed list, typically the same business day it lands. Wire on request. We don't pay cash, and ID is required prior to payment.
Send the list — any quantity, anywhere in the USA. Written per-drive offer back within one business day.
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