What's Inside Hard Drives - Platinum Platters

Platinum from hard drive platters, when did it stop?
It's debatable but i'm assuming it mostly happened when we went to 20GB and above HD's.
Platinum recovery should be great on the old 5 1/4 inch hard drives.
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[@escrapchannel]

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 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 👍

[@shoppy00]

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.

[@sharkscrapper]

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.

[@michaelschuenemann3505]

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 !!!!

[@badbadgerz]

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

[@TECHNICUSChannel]

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

[@shaneyork300]

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

[@tristangwithian4010]

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.

[@josephonesta6416]

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.

[@barrywest3758]

An educational video indeed. Ben I enjoyed 👍👍

[@bradwelch7425]

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.

[@thunderfeetx9280]

Another awesome video for scrapping hard drives.

[@ScrappingwithGrandpa]

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

[@poosmate]

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

[@farooqzaheer6124]

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

[@christopherleubner6633]

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.

[@AnalogThinker]

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

[@cheesynuts4291]

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

[@JohnnySwedishScrapper]

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

[@zurnchris1002]

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

[@regannyhuis2728]

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

[@mikeduke975]

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

[@stanleygallman7800]

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! 😊

[@fahadrajput2967]

I always watch your videos

[@jonnotuckster8856]

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

[@mjkk-nx3mk]

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

[@scrapitjc]

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

[@TheUltimateRecycler]

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

[@5pr1nk57]

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!

[@progressivedigressor6036]

Thumbs up for the magnets, those are nice.

[@Alondro77]

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

[@RedeyeCountry]

those doves are noisy, we have them here in NZ

[@jasonbutton3342]

great to see inside all the drives, thanks

[@SollersScrappingandDiving]

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!!!!😀👍

[@ScrappingwithGrandpa]

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

[@gummyroid]

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

[@electronicscrapper4956]

Amazing to see the difference thru the years

[@ewaste-jd-preciousmetals3723]

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

[@evriellesmith6659]

scraping in the garage good job Ben

[@bassmanbilly1969]

Thanks for the great video :)

[@colinhamer6506]

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

[@susanpiele3372]

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

[@goldmagnet]

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

[@alanl.simmons9726]

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

[@SollersScrappingandDiving]

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

[@johnhoughton339]

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

[@headerahelix]

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]

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

[@lanitaorjeraldlewisdillorl2258]

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

[@johnszurek4507]

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

[@CandSMINING]

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

[@robgad2271]

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.

[@theresefreeland3762]

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

[@louisepastro3679]

He put them in a bucket

[@ScrappingwithGrandpa]

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

[@ChristopherWoods]

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

[@chuxxsss]

The read head is a electro magnetic system, as the neodymium magnets where not common in the 1970s or not as strong as today's smaller ones.

[@luizCarlos-us1gv]

👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[@uooello13]

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

[@southaussiegarbo2054]

Lol

[@geoffupton]

interesting, very interesting 😊

[@Foolish188]

"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.

[@goodtimeeric]

*Otter lie

[@JSuparman]

Thanks for sharing Sir.

[@shanesuthy]

love it history of hard drives

[@jokinmyass9446]

I've got a board lying around just like the first one you showed. It's from the very first epson laptop

[@josephcormier5974]

Awesome video very informative two thumbs

[@tawnihaynie1065]

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

[@bassmanbilly1969]

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

[@Dancing_Alone_wRentals]

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

[@CamposGaspar]

Very cool. Very educative.

[@FollowMe2aMillion]

Hey Ben, just heard about the earthquake there. Hoping all is well my friend.

[@eWasteBen]

all good mate, it's gnna take a much bigger quake to slow me down :)

[@richardroyles1423]

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

[@kingspokelife5118]

I LOVE you videos man!!! SO HELPFUL!

[@baharuddinbesah3709]

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

[@bobspistolsandpaydirt8607]

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]

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.

[@RSFred555]

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

[@davidranew9776]

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

[@ProjectDIYOz]

Loved the video mate, thank you!

[@judybeckner9047]

Interesting Bed, thanks for sharing

[@DaveL0120]

Use the magnets to hold the tips or screws too

[@user-sd1ur4bn2r]

Отличный пример что брать!

[@horacepinker6578]

Those hard drive heads have very fine gold wire in them

[@LutzSchafer]

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]

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]

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

[@LutzSchafer]

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

[@christopherleubner6633]

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...

[@sharkscrapper]

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]

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

[@adventureswithttfncachn3967]

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.

[@ROBERTSCOIN]

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

[@scrapwomblecreatives6944]

i used to love my old bigfoot hd

[@joesask857]

thanks man

[@wolfonthehill5134]

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

[@richard-l448]

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]

@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.

[@excitedbox5705]

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

[@Newmath907]

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

[@greekgods3399]

love it

[@michaelsadventures4261]

Greetings from the Bourbon Capital of the World.

[@eWasteBen]

Bourbon is my poison so god bless

[@kashewz]

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

[@BullProspecting]

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

[@shanexcs3810]

Stay safe, your city looks crazy right now

[@eWasteBen]

it's all happening for sure

[@scrapman502]

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

[@TechGorilla1987]

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

[@jamescebuscavenger2872]

I'm watching,👌👌

[@user-sd1ur4bn2r]

Магниты с платиной были ))

[@ScrappingwithGrandpa]

Very good video I have 50 to do

[@goldscrapurbanmining]

👍👍

[@evileyemcgaming]

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