Sell to GTR
Who Buys Surplus SSDs and NVMe Drives
GTR Supply buys surplus SSDs and NVMe drives in bulk, and quotes them against the exact manufacturer part number rather than the capacity. That is the one thing worth knowing before you write your list. On a spinning drive, capacity and interface get you most of the way to a valuation. On flash they do not, because the part number is what carries the endurance class, the interface generation and any vendor coding, and two drives that both read 1.92TB on the sticker can be very different items. We take enterprise read intensive and mixed use drives, U.2, M.2 and 2.5 inch SATA, drives still mounted in caddies, new sealed trays that were never deployed, and customer returns. Untested is accepted. Send the part numbers and the quantity against each one and a valuation normally comes back the same business day.
What we take
SSDs & NVMe we buy.
- Enterprise read intensive and mixed use SATA SSDs
- U.2 and E1.S data center NVMe flash
- M.2 client and data center drives
- Drives still mounted in server caddies
- New sealed trays that were bought and never deployed
- Customer returns and opened but unused stock
- Mixed part number lots, listed by part number
Buying rather than clearing? See the SSDs & NVMe we supply by the lot.
What your list needs
Write these down.
- The exact manufacturer part number, one line per part number
- Quantity against each part number
- Form factor: 2.5 inch SATA, M.2, U.2 or E1.S
- Whether each line is new sealed, deployed and pulled, or a customer return
- Whether the drives are in caddies, and which chassis family the caddies suit
- Any wear or endurance figures you hold, if your tooling reported them
- Whether sealed trays are still in the original packaging with labels intact
Missing some of it?
Send it anyway and write unknown against the gaps. An honest gap is easy to price around. A wrong specification found at collection is what forces a valuation to be revised.
Not certain what is on the pallet? See the 10 families of SSDs & NVMe that circulate on the secondary market and how to tell them apart, each with the part number prefix or the physical marker that identifies it. That page is identification help for writing this list rather than a stock list.
Identify what you have
Most of what a valuation needs is a model number read correctly. The catch with SSDs & NVMe is that the number sits in a different place on every manufacturer's hardware, and reads differently once you have found it. These pages show where it physically is, how to read each field in it, and what the fields mean. They are identification help rather than stock lists. If typing the list is not realistic, a photograph of the right label is usually enough.
Every brand GTR Supply buys and sells, grouped by category, with the identification detail for each one.
What moves the number
Up, and down.
Condition is only part of it. Most of what decides a valuation is how the lot is put together and how accurately it is described, and both of those are still in your hands when you write the list.
Moves it up
- One part number in volume rather than fifty part numbers in ones and twos
- Sealed trays with the manufacturer label unbroken
- Mixed use and higher endurance parts, which are harder to replace than read intensive ones
- Caddies included where the drives came out of a chassis
- Wear figures supplied where your tooling already recorded them
Moves it down
- A list that gives capacities only, with no part numbers, so nothing can be priced accurately
- Heavily mixed lots with a long tail of single units
- Opened or damaged retail packaging on stock described as new
- Older interface generations, which move more slowly regardless of capacity
- Drives with the labels peeled off, since the part number cannot then be confirmed
Free valuation
Get a number on your SSDs & NVMe.
No obligation. Send what you have and we will tell you what it is worth and how quickly we can move it.
Clearing more than one category? See everything GTR Supply buys. Mixed lots are normal, and the whole room is usually worth more than the parts of it offered separately.
Purchasing desk
Daniel Maxwell
Procurement Specialist
Evan Parker
Sourcing Specialist
Common questions
Selling SSDs & NVMe, answered.
Why do you need the exact part number on SSDs?
Because on flash the part number is the specification, and the capacity on its own is not. Two drives that both say 1.92TB can differ in endurance class, interface generation, firmware and vendor coding, and those differences decide who can use the drive and therefore what it is worth.
Endurance is the big one. A read intensive drive and a mixed use drive of the same capacity are built for different write loads, and a buyer running a write heavy workload cannot substitute one for the other. The part number states it. The sticker capacity does not.
Vendor coding matters as well. Some drives are keyed to a specific server platform and will report as unsupported in anything else, which narrows the buyers for that lot considerably.
Send the part numbers and GTR Supply can price the lot line by line. Send capacities alone and the honest answer is a range nobody can commit to.
Do you buy new sealed SSD trays as well as pulls?
Yes. GTR Supply buys new sealed stock, used stock and customer returns, and it is worth separating the three on your list because they are priced differently and confusing them causes a valuation to be revised later.
New sealed means the manufacturer packaging is unbroken and the labels are intact. That is a genuinely different item from a drive that was unboxed, racked for a week and pulled, even though both may have almost no write hours on them.
Customer returns are welcome too. Overstock that came back through a channel, cancelled orders and units returned unused are all normal lots for us and do not need explaining away.
What helps most is one line per part number per condition. Two hundred sealed and forty pulls of the same part number is two lines, not one, and that distinction is usually worth more than any other detail on the sheet.
Does read intensive or mixed use change the valuation?
Yes, and it is one of the larger swings on an SSD lot, which is why the part number matters more here than anywhere else.
The two classes are built for different jobs. Read intensive drives are made for workloads that mostly read and write comparatively little, and they are produced and sold in far larger numbers. Mixed use drives are rated to absorb considerably more writing over their life and are made in smaller quantities, so demand for them from buyers running databases, virtualisation and caching tiers is steadier.
Write endurance is normally the thing that decides which class a drive belongs to, and it is encoded in the part number rather than printed as a plain description on the label.
You do not need to work out which is which before you write to us. Send the part numbers and the quantities and GTR Supply will identify the class for you.
Where do I find the part number on an enterprise SSD?
On the label, usually printed above or below the capacity and often the longest alphanumeric string on the sticker. It is not the serial number, which is unique to that one drive, and it is not the model family name.
On a 2.5 inch drive the label covers the top face. On an M.2 drive it runs along the module, and the print is small enough that a phone photograph is often easier to read than the drive itself. On a caddy mounted drive you may have to slide the drive out of the tray to see it.
If the drives are still installed and the machine is reachable, the operating system or the management controller will report the model string for every drive at once, which beats reading several hundred labels by hand.
One photograph per part number plus a count is enough. You do not need to photograph every unit.
Guides
Clearing SSDs & NVMe is mostly a description exercise. These cover what a buyer is actually pricing and what the words on a quote mean before you agree to any of them.
Clearing more than one category?
Most decommissions are mixed. Send the whole list and we will value it as one lot rather than making you split it up first.
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