Why is this Old Hdd so expensive?

[MrIceCremeLollipop]

Considering Its size, I don't understand the price?

I would understand if it had apple written all over it...

[Arty]

just cause he selling at that price doesn't mean its worth that.

[Scruffy90]

Who knows. Maybe someone could be severely overvaluing their product?

[samcool55]

It's SAS, which means enterprise stuff, and 10k, which means it spins faster than a regular hdd.

Simply said it's a performance hdd before ssd's were common.

[SLAYR]

1 minute ago, MrIceCremeLollipop said:

Considering Its size, I don't understand the price?

I would understand if it had apple written all over it...

Old stuff is always going to get more expensive as at ages because people think that the rarity has something to do with the price(look up how much people want for old motherboards, and cpus), but for this drive it is a server grade drive so there probbably aren't many of them due to them being useless.

[MrIceCremeLollipop]

Just now, Fooshi said:

10K RPM SAS drives have a tendency to be more expensive than the usual 7.2K SATA drives. 10K SAS are usually significantly faster.

O rite thanks!

[Enderman]

its a 10k enterprise sas drive

thats why

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Some old stuff tends to cost considerably more than most people would think it should.  A good example of this is older RAM (DDR and DDR2).  Plus it's a 10k RPM enterprise SAS drive.. maybe that balances out the fact it's only 36GB?  I don't think it should, but you know how these things are

[LAwLz]

I am pretty sure that's not a 32GB drive, but rather a 320GB drive. So it's that, plus 10K RPM, and I think it is enterprise grade as well.

The WD VelociRaptor, 300GB, was something like 200 pounds when it came out so this drive might have been ~400 pounds. It's by no means worth 72 pounds today, but it is not THAT unreasonable that someone would think it is.

[Mark77]

Who knows if anyone would actually pay that..  But seriously, sometimes people suffer drive failures with important data and, in order to repair a drive, one or more 'donor' drives are required for the repair.  So the cost of buying a drive, even an expensive one on eBay, is minimal compared to the thousands of dollars a mechanical 'data recovery' costs to perform.

 

Also, that drive has a tray attached which may be valuable to someone.

 

But yeah, as another poster pointed out, that was probably a $1000-$1500 drive brand-new.  Some applications just can't have a SSD substituted in all that easily.  For instance, many systems in nuclear power plants are 'qualified' with a certain set of components, and it is mountains of paperwork to deviate from the original specs.  So they send their staff onto eBay to find parts.

[looney]

10 hours ago, LAwLz said:

I am pretty sure that's not a 32GB drive, but rather a 320GB drive. So it's that, plus 10K RPM, and I think it is enterprise grade as well.

The WD VelociRaptor, 300GB, was something like 200 pounds when it came out so this drive might have been ~400 pounds. It's by no means worth 72 pounds today, but it is not THAT unreasonable that someone would think it is.

Nope, it's a 36.4gb scsi drive (not SAS but the one before SAS ) 

 

Still to exercise, 3 years back I bought 300GB models for that price. 

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On 4/13/2016 at 1:26 PM, MrIceCremeLollipop said:

Considering Its size, I don't understand the price?

I would understand if it had apple written all over it...

its pounds, hes selling it by the weight 

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11 hours ago, PeloyGeek said:

its pounds, hes selling it by the weight 

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I wish all computer stuff was sold by the pound...  I think we would all save a lot on some stuff, like CPUs and laptops in general   And there would be no real difference in price between a 4 TB drive and a 500 GB drive

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17 minutes ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

I wish all computer stuff was sold by the pound...  I think we would all save a lot on some stuff, like CPUs and laptops in general   And there would be no real difference in price between a 4 TB drive and a 500 GB drive

or even better in ssd's 

[Jarsky]

It's well over priced, probably due to the rarity of it - so anyone relying on that hardware, is forced to pay more than its worth.

 

http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B0000AT8U4/

 

As pointed out above its actually a SCSI drive, not a SAS - no doubt there are still hordes of old machines out there that rely on legacy software installed on old Windows NT 4.0 machines that still rely on old hardware like this - and thats where sellers like these make that money.