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Looking for suggestions on how to list a car load (literally) of random disk drives

I've never thrown away a disk drive.  I'm now 60+ and I have a car load of old disk drives.  I bought a big NAS (yet more disk drives) and I'm slowing going through all the old drives, copying the data I want to save to the NAS.  Then I write random data to the entire drive.  I then write all zeros to the drive.  I then reformat it with a GPT and one exFAT file system.  Last, I want to list them on eBay.  There are some duplicate types of drives.

 

Utopia would be to have a few fields such as manufacturer, model, size, and a photo or two per drive and hit some magic "LIST" button somewhere and it would create a listing from a template filling in the few items that change with each drive.

 

I'm a programmer so I'm not afraid to write scripts, etc if that would help in this case.

 

If you were face with this problem, how would you solve it?  Make a template and then just create each listing by hand starting from the template?  Use one listing and have multiple alternatives?  Use the bulk tool?  Use a third party tool?

 

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Re: Looking for suggestions on how to list a car load (literally) of random disk drives

Also if I have similar I list like this -

Lot of 15x Western digital 250gb xxxxxxx

Or

 lot of mixed major brand 15x 250gb.

Generally they do well as the bulk refurbers will buy them.  It's not uncommon that I'll sell a bunch of mechanical to help fund myself a lot of SSD drives.

 

 

 

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