Re: sell a whole NAS or strip it and sell the HDDs only on eBay?

SH <i.love@spam.com> wrote:

 
 
I have a fairly old Buffalo Terastation (rack mount) with 4 off 1 TB
drives in it.  its SMB 1.0 only and only does about 30 Mbyte/s at full pelt.
 
I want to sell this......   which is going to be more profitable?
 
1. Sell thw whole NAS as is, its quite heavy so the postage will cost a bit
 
2. Strip it, sell just the 4 off 1 TB drives and junk the now denuded NAS?

You can run the numbers.  Check sold listings to see what the HDD
themselves are each selling for, deduct N lots of postage and ebay
fees[1].  Compare with selling as a unit with one big hit of postage.

There are zero sold listings for the Terastation so I'd guess nobody wants
them.  1TB HDD are also quite small nowadays - that's now an SSD.

I might be tempted to list the HDD together (selling price seems to be about
£40 for 4 or about £10 each, but separately there's more postage costs you
have to pay) and then offer the NAS with them for free if somebody wants to
collect.  If they don't, you post the HDD and scrap the NAS.

Theo

[1] ebay UK announced there were now no seller fees for private sellers.
Then they said 'there's no fees but your buyer will pay buyer protection on
top'.  So that's fees back again.