Should 2nd hand hardrives not be sold?

[Lee H]

I NEVER sell anything to anyone now. What I do is donate it to them and if they feel like they want to "give me" beer, cigs, more beer, a night on the tiles in Manchester out of their goodheart then I will gladly accept this from them. Solves all the calls 6 months down the line of ... " Leeeeeee, my PC is crashing..... "

[arthurleung]

do look into the warranty; many HDs have 3 years now so you should be fine. No reciept required, just get the serial, enter into webby, run their diags, tell em the code (if poss), and send it to em. New replacement is even a newer model sometimes! I've done this a few times with maxtor and WD (we were using them on a test bench...) and there were no problems at all......

Remember the harddrive manufacturer madness just last year? WD, Maxtor, Seagate were ALL 1 years warranty. These drives were from back then.