Hello!
I have an old CONNER CFS425A IDE HDD at home. I saw on the eBay that these old Conner HDDs are selling for ridiculous prices (over 100 $ or €). Can anyone enlighten me on the matter - why an old used HDD with 425 MB capacity is over 100 € and a new WD big drive is half less?
Thank you!
Nobody knows?
Supply and demand, if people didn’t want them the price would be almost zero.
Old RAM is similar (and I mean old) where it is no longer produced so is rare, but some people need it to update their systems.
My first PC system that had a hard disk was 512MB at the time that was massive (and expensive) and the guy said I would never fill it but I did after about a year and was using compression software until I bought a 1GB drive.
So you just can’t get hold of these old drives and if someone has one and someone needs one it is a sellers market and it can command a high price.
Interesting… But who really uses such old systems nowadays? For such money (100 € +) they could buy an used modern PC instead of upgrading the old one.
I also have an old Quantum Fireball 5 GB HDD, but that one’s worthless I guess. Maybe it’s something special about that old Conner HDDs - but I can’t figure it out.
Maybe it’s really just as you said but I’m still amazed and… well, shocked.
There are many people still using ancient systems for whatever reason and stuff breaks, so replacement components are required and command a premium price.
I’m never surprised about the price of some stuff, it is called supply and demand - no demand, no premium price - no or very limited supply, premium price. It works for all commodities.
I can’t explain it either. Only thing that makes any sense is that some old PC BIOS (and I’m talking 1980s) cannot address more than 504MB ??
The thing that doesn’t make sense to me is why would someone be using ancient slow system and spend big money on new (old) parts when he/she could buy a new machine for the money… Maybe for nostalgic reasons. 
Maybe for nostalgic reasons.
Exactly. Probably why people would pay a lot for an old Commodore 64.
Why complain though, you have something that sells for 100 € +, so sell it! 
I’m not complaining, I’m just wondering. 
I’ll try to sell it, yeah. Thank you all for your comments.