SAS SSDs from 960GB to 15.36TB, 2.5" 10k spinners and 3.5" nearline, priced per model on what they are worth working. Tell us what came out of the array and a real number comes back inside one working day.
SAS SSDs and SAS hard drives 1TB and over. 15 types listed — not seeing yours? Put the model in the notes and we will price it by hand.
SAS hard drives below 1TB — 300GB and 600GB 10k drives in particular — come out of a decommissioned array in enormous numbers and are worth less than the cost of collecting and testing them. If yours are in a mixed pallet, send the whole list anyway and we will be straight with you about which lines are worth pricing.
Our buying team will come back with an offer, usually within one working day.
Four things decide it, roughly in this order: capacity, whether it is solid state, how much write endurance is left, and how many identical ones you have. Age comes a distant fifth and only really bites once a model has dropped out of firmware support.
The endurance point is specific to SAS SSDs and worth understanding, because it is the one thing that can move an offer significantly after inspection. Enterprise SSDs report their remaining write life over SMART, and we read it on arrival. A 3.84TB read-intensive drive with most of its life left is a straightforward resale; the same model at 15% remaining is close to a spare. If you know your array was write-heavy, say so in the notes — a realistic list gets a realistic offer that does not have to be revised later.
On spinning SAS, capacity does almost all the work. A 12TB 3.5" nearline drive is worth several times a 2.4TB 2.5" 10k drive, even though the 10k drive was the more expensive part when it was new. Speed stopped being what people pay for once SSDs took the tier above.
Almost all of it is one of three situations. A storage array reaches end of support and the whole shelf comes out at once — that is the ideal list, because it is dozens of identical drives. A server refresh leaves the old fleet's drives behind, usually a mix of 10k 2.5" and a handful of SSDs. Or a data centre tenant moves out and hands back kit that was never theirs to keep.
In every case the drives arrive as a batch of matched models, which is exactly what makes them worth buying. It is also why we ask for quantities rather than a description: forty of one model is a completely different proposition to forty assorted drives, and the list tells us which one you have.
Leave them in the caddies, leave them in the shelf if that is easier, and do not bother sorting them. Collection is arranged and paid for by us on anything of reasonable size, anywhere in the UK and Ireland. Drives are wiped on arrival, before they are tested and long before they are resold — you are welcome to wipe them yourself first if your own policy requires it, and it makes no difference to the offer.
Once they arrive and match the list, payment goes out by bank transfer. If the list and the pallet disagree we will tell you exactly where and why before anything is settled.
Yes, and we would rather you left them in. A SAS drive in a Dell, HPE or Lenovo caddy is worth more than a bare one, because caddies are irritating to source and we would otherwise have to buy them separately. Pulling them out costs you money and costs you time.
Still bought, just worth less at the same capacity. The list is written around 12Gb/s because that is what turns up, but put 6Gb/s quantities against the nearest line and note the speed — we will price on what you actually have.
At the same capacity, generally yes, because the buyers are servers rather than desktops and the supply is thinner. The gap is much wider on SSDs than on spinning drives.
Both. 4Kn narrows the pool of buyers slightly so it can price a little softer, but it is not a problem. Tell us in the notes if you know which you have; if you do not, we will read it off the drive.
No. Quantity is the thing that improves the per-drive number most: forty identical 1.92TB SAS SSDs are worth more each than four, because forty sell as a lot and four sell one at a time. Send the whole list.
Not on this site — SellDrives is drives only. Whole arrays, servers and networking go to our sister site sellmyservers.co.uk, and we can handle both halves of the same clearance between us.