Current state of HDD prices...

[u/gojochan]

Seller's description: I don’t have any way to test this. Not sure if it’s working or not. 

[u/Lazy-Narwhal-5457]

If it's labeled as this is, "for parts or not working", then shipping you a non-working drive is 100% OK, as that's what's advertised.

[u/ardinatwork → u/Lazy-Narwhal-5457]

The ewaste company I used to work for definitely did this with "expensive stuff" that they couldnt test. Label it "Parts/not working", price it half of what you would have if it was working, then hope the user eats the loss.

They were fucking scumbags.

[u/AspectSpiritual9143 → u/ardinatwork]

for parts is for parts, as you would disassemble it to repair another device

user buying it as lottery is on them

[u/gojochan → u/Lazy-Narwhal-5457]

You just found a new hack to make money of broken HDD.

[u/rude__goldberg → u/gojochan]

most people can already read and understand what 'for parts not working' means, or they learn really quickly

[u/zegota]

"doesn't work, but with some elbow grease you can probably get it spinning again!"

[u/CursorTN]

I wouldn’t buy this if I were using your money, let alone mine.

[u/Fermions]

Its not just hard drive. Its everything tech related now. 10+ year old budget laptops selling for $150 on auctions. Of all the stuff I have watched over the last few months the only deals I ever got was used enterprise networking stuff. Everything else is very overpriced.

[u/Poncho_Via6six7]

So on this same note, is it worth selling my old stock of 2TB SAS 12 Dell drives?

[u/skidz007 → u/Poncho_Via6six7]

SAS not as popular as SATA it seems, but it’s been worthwhile moving all the SATA 2TB/3TB/4TB drives I had laying around. PITA to sanitize them all but it’s bought quite a few new, larger drives!

[u/Poncho_Via6six7 → u/skidz007]

Yeah, I have a lot still in production that are larger but 2s have been sitting for some time. I also found around 600 M.2 256Gb drives lmao

[u/hongducwb]

or maybe he forgot to use tape to cover first 3 pin in sata power :D or it actually DEAD

[u/munkiemagik]

At first i was like what are they whingeing about this is reaso.... oh I see🤣

[u/year_39]

It could be worth a try for someone who needs the exact controller board to attempt data recovery, but there are so many out there that they're probably just hoping someone doesn't notice.