I.T. FAQs
To sell your used hard drives, you should ensure you fully delete your data, properly inventory and assess the condition of all your drives, find a buyer or seller platform, properly package up your hard drives, then complete your sale. We made a handy guide: how to sell your used hard drives with even more information. Or, the easiest option is just to fill out a quote form and we’ll take care of everything.
Common places to sell your hard drives include eBay, direct to seller, Amazon (used), reddit.com/r/hardwareswap, or ITAD company like us, NorthStar Professional. If you’re here, you’re already at the right place to make selling your equipment easy and maximizing your value.
The best reason to sell your old hard drives is extra cash. Reducing failure risk of older drives and increasing performance with newer drives are a couple others.
Desktop 500GB+, Laptop 250GB+, Server 300GB+, SATA, SAS, PCI-E, NVMe, SSD, & HDD. If you’re not sure if what you have is something we would buy, then just contact us and we’d be glad to help.
About $1,000 worth, or about 100 500GB Laptop drives, but you can combine it with memory or processors to hit the minimum.
Storage is the type (tree), and hard drives are the kind (Maple). Storage can be solid state drives, flash drives, RAID arrays, etc, they are all considered ‘storage’ as they all serve the purpose of holding data. Hard drives, describe a certain type of storage, namely data residing on spinning palladium disks read by a mechanical arm.
The best way to sell your used RAM will largely depend on what quantity you’re trying to sell. For bulk quantities, an IT asset disposition company like us will be your best bet.
If you have large quantities of RAM to sell, contact us or fill out a form below to get a quick cash offer.
For consumer quantities, eBay and reddit.com/r/hardwareswap are good options. Check sold listings on eBay to get a good idea for what your memory is going for. Make sure you ship the memory in tightly sealed memory trays and pack the boxes snugly.
About $1,000 worth or any combination of used IT including used ram, used hard drives HHDs, used SSDs, used processors or CPUs, used memory or ram, used servers, used computers, used networking, or similar used IT equipment you have to liquidate.
If you’re not sure if what you have qualifies, just contact us below to let us know what you have and we’ll be glad to help out!
DDR3 is the past generation of RAM, with DDR4 being the most recent. DDR4 reaches faster clock speeds, is more expensive, operates at lower voltages, has higher latency, and 288 pins to the 240 pins of DDR4.
To sell your used CPUs, look for an ITAD company if you have a bulk quantity (more than a few processors). Otherwise, you can use reddit.com/r/hardware swap, eBay, Amazon Trade-In, or sell locally using Facebook groups or Craigslist.
Make sure you’ve got good pictures and accurate part information before you listing them online.