I’m starting to get back into the swing of tech at large, and found a business laptop that fits my needs for a portable low power emulation device. When I look to buy it secondhand, because I don’t intend to burn money or the environment unnecessarily, I find dozens of extremely cheap listings without drives. Are these secondhand from businesses removing and drilling the drives or is there something else going on?

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They’re removed by the business when they decommission them so the drives can be destroyed to make sure no data gets leaked.

They often don’t have power cables either because they’ll re-use those on the newer models if they can.

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