500000 hard disks drive scrap HDD gold recovery

[@MakeGold]

👉👉👉 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🌟

[@megnameghna9427]

Sir plz reply💌

[@sanimuhammed3369]

Thank you wal

[@jewellerydesignerartists9353]

💯💯🙏

[@marlondeleon5958]

please indicate all mixtures chemicals from 1st to finished

[@sabastiaoportugues9551]

@@marlondeleon5958 John j

[@toolazy4names302]

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

[@canonicaltom]

This comment is gold

[@jewellerydesignerartists9353]

💯🙏👍

[@brandond6281]

@@canonicaltom this reply is golden

[@umarudoma1811]

I'm using the WD green HDD ftom 2012 till now and it's still going strong.

[@davidmiles4678]

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

[@burriedhistory]

Wow, that is a stunning chunk of gold!

[@chrissettles4127]

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]

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

[@weareliverpoolfc]

thats why he have youtube

[@edwardspencer9397]

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]

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

[@ThePatriotPirate]

10 cents per hard drive.😊

[@yahshua4592]

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

[@AlexZawodniak]

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

[@silversharkc4666]

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

[@stevensmith8285]

That’s unrefined gold that sells for $8

[@gusdeeks8801]

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

[@melvondoty4572]

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

[@TheBest-ee5hk]

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

[@ukskywatcher9598]

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

[@jewellerydesignerartists9353]

🙏💯💯👍🙏

[@jimm2297]

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

[@tomspeed2000]

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]

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

[@KainisDarc]

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]

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]

@@MakeGold what were those little things you were sifting

[@radiocomponent]

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]

Excellent, but takes time to gather, very difficult

[@radiocomponent]

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

[@noway8233]

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

[@radiocomponent]

@@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]

@@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.

[@Squee_666_9]

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

[@Elleboogie621]

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.!

[@ralphferrara5152]

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

[@beardtrick]

24

[@patrickguillory-yy2gu]

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

[@ilikegaming2738]

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

[@GeorgiKolevN]

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...

[@sgillcomp12]

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

[@jimiliev3924]

It's idiot power that makes the world revolve

[@yoserbmon6827]

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

[@Masculoman]

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

[@jewellerydesignerartists9353]

🙏💯💯👍

[@Ranteray]

foram 500 mil hds..

[@rangerwriter]

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]

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]

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]

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..

[@wayneburbrink1215]

That’s a chunk of gold wow 🤩

[@aliminingcompany]

Superb work! Keep it up!

[@moein8946]

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

[@byhellboyci]

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

[@khozabenhamid9745]

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

[@EcoPure-q3x]

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

[@nickandyou1470]

less , 5k i'd say

[@EcoPure-q3x]

@@nickandyou1470 ok

[@abeleverson6949]

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.

[@jewellerydesignerartists9353]

Beautiful work

[@andrewk1294]

How is one to get all these hard drives ?

[@aredditor4272]

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

[@misheckmsiska3565]

My question is can you potentially sell this type of Gold???

[@mikojofpv8677]

In the Philippines no doubt about that.

[@arnedalbakk6315]

Very Nice clip sir😊 Thanks

[@wildingnemo5869]

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

[@jahangiralis2827]

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

[@ИванИванов-ш2т9р]

Все верно техника безопасности главное! А металлы любят порядок))

[@stephanierenshaw]

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

[@johnny_roxx]

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]

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

[@vidya126]

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]

Urea does not precipitate gold.

[@nickitoff9629]

Wow! That was fun to watch. Nice work!

[@patrickguillory-yy2gu]

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

[@MakeGold]

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]

@@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]

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

[@stephenbrinckerhoff3510]

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

[@darrinfry2251]

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

[@gipadang9815]

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

[@matthewhartley8756]

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

[@sreeharsha9202]

Bro Do you have Seagate 2 TB SSHD Firecuda ST2000DX002 Hard disk logic board?

[@MakeGold]

sorry i don't have any

[@nftacitzakyeart1698]

Amazing 😲✌️ smart work😎✌️

[@daveyingram8934]

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

[@biegiemdocelu]

Wow! Greetings from Poland ✋👍

[@metinsara2362]

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?

[@vhstapeemporium3034]

500000 hard drives

[@synth505]

You must think you're special... smh

[@thegreatdragon2637]

If each hard drive took 1 minute to take out this part of gold , 500000 min÷60 = 8333 hours. About. 347 day ,for 80g of gold , working one year for 5000 $

[@60Secondscreative]

Can we use urea in impossibility to use sodium metabisulfate ?

[@fusazzo94]

yes u can

[@svenssonefternamn7044]

Damn how many hard drives is that?

[@jasonmeloche]

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

[@Rob337_aka_CancelProof]

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]

so its not possible to un-alloy certain metals?

[@mysterybuyer3738]

People's first thought is always how much is the gold worth to sell it. You don't want to sell the gold. You want to hang onto the gold until dollars can not be able to buy it. Gold IS the money.

[@Geotrist]

I would sell it. I need relief from foolish debt.

[@mysterybuyer3738]

@@Geotrist Well yes debt should be taken care of as it drags everything else down with it.

[@alphastream1]

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

[@paranoidharith4512]

I don't understand what they are, what did he get them from?

[@deanguando1335]

A whole lot of computers.

[@teamSHTF]

They are a component put on the reader of hard drives. You would have a lot more work to do than they did as they got the raw component and you would actually have to micro scrap 500 000 hard drives.

[@factorylad5071]

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

[@jonathansonnier3078]

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

[@charleshines8523]

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

[@bobertjones2300]

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

[@chilpeeps]

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

[@MaxStudioCG2023]

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]

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

[@MaxStudioCG2023]

@@chilpeeps yea well now 1tb is nothing

[@istvanabonyi6068]

please write exactly what materials you use, thx.

[@saint27573]

How do you get so much electronic scrap ?

[@g-dcomplex1609]

i really like the induction furnace

[@whateversmurfette]

please please tell me you recovered the rhodium from the ends

[@milojkovicaleksandar]

3 yrs for 5000$ , plus fuel plus hours plus everything.... I just can't see the profit here. Maybe from youtube 😅

[@abnnuzzinicholasclay686]

5k is 5k. It's a hobby . Gold price goes up. Where is the downfall? Time? You spend money every second of every day.

[@RioSantana1]

What were those little things he dissolved

[@creatacasa2499]

Why didn't you melt the gold pieces from the beginning? And you complicated yourself with dissolving them with various solutions??

[@Mjg503]

I believe toxic fumes are a huge issue if they just burned it straight up.

[@mclc4327]

Where can you get an incduction heater like that?

[@factorylad5071]

Eclipse tools

[@jameswheeler7237]

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

[@sarachitamang6840]

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

[@РусланБабух-щ9к]

Ничо себе 🤯 выход из импорта!)))

[@TV-bj7pw]

Тебе не показалось, что это пиздешь...

[@TV-bj7pw]

Такой же по ходу как Максимов ро

[@РусланБабух-щ9к]

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

[@ЕвгенийЗаяц-м6н]

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

[@TroubledOnePaydirt]

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. 😑

[@josephanthony1655]

What was the purity ?

[@RixtronixLAB]

Thanks for sharing, keep it up:)

[@jewellerydesignerartists9353]

👍🙏💯

[@mrwang420]

81.4 grams. Thats like $5000 Nice haul.

[@MichaelClark-uw7ex]

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

[@jimiliev3924]

Bugger all gold, you would have made more on the aluminium casings

[@morganmadida9796]

1,6kg produced 81 grams?

[@ahmedfares7985]

This is from 500000hard drive ??

[@milehighnative8509]

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

[@JeffMukaz-hypns]

Cool job😂😂😂😂😂 many

[@mikecrystalrobert7898]

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

[@marklestergamayon4082]

Wow Gold nice 😮

[@ednorm6241]

i dont believe u did five hundred thousand DISKS it take a life time to take that many apart

[@teamSHTF]

They didn't, look closer.

[@radekcermak3848]

it's the most beautiful hobby in the world!

[@ashishjindal6382]

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

[@zamistro]

That was from half a million hard drives?

[@sarachitamang6840]

Sir minimam how much gold ? in one laptop please sir

[@bobertjones2300]

His video indicates .000166 gm of AU per hard drive. He either missed a lot or was inefficient and he lost many rupees of labor and chemicals to produce little. Maybe something is lost in translation?

[@INDKFGC]

How many bitcoins were in those drives?

[@memechannels76]

Without urea?

[@stone_-_man]

Very good ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@royhi1809]

Approx. $5,000. Nice!

[@buggsy5]

I don't see the economics in this. Assuming that you have a mostly automated system to open the drive cases and prepare them for the part removal, it appears it takes at least 30 seconds to separate each gold plated contact. So, for 500,000 drives, it would require 250,000 minutes of manual handling time. That comes out to over 4000 hours - so you are getting a return of only a bit over $1/hour for your efforts - ignoring all other handling, processing, disposal and chemical costs. Working 10 hours a day on the prep, it would take over 400 days for this step - with a return of about $10/day or $300/month.

[@aaronthompson2095]

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

[@RcNerd]

No gold specialist will touch it.

[@bitsofeverything8385]

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

[@asj8454]

bro where do u get this wastes

[@songsan807]

There is a reason why I failed chemistry in school. And no store or website crazy enough to sell me these chemicals. My math and business experience would tell me that unless all 500,000 of these HDDs are bad, it would be safer and you would make more money finding out which drive is still good and selling them. Places like eBay and Amazon sell these $20+ compare to the 1 penny of gold for each drive.

[@Black-N-Toasty]

Did you at least checked if the hard drives has any Bitcoin accounts?

[@marianefertorresmartinez632]

Cuantos discos duros recojieron

[@jamiee172]

Isn't that almost 3 ounces?