I’m finally upgrading to a 1 TB SSD and i’m not sure what to do with the ol’ HDD. some say they convert theirs into an external drive which sounds easy enough, but are there other potential projects?
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Leave them stashed away until I get a random request for a file many years later, by which time they are inaccessible
If it works, put it in my media server PC,
if it doesn’t work, this
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Keep them in a box in my closet and tell myself I’ll use them for a storage/media server 🥲
No better day to start than today!
I don’t get a ton of use out of my Jellyfin server but it’s nice to have the option when I inevitably get tired of paying for streaming services.
I just use them as an extra drive so I can have more things on my system without having to delete things
I just keep setting them up as external hard drives. I keep non demanding steam games on them.
If they haven’t failed, who couldn’t use extra storage? See how many you can fit in a case and make a rig for your backups why not
If its big enough to still be of viable use(500gb+), I’d keep it in my PC and turn it into a data drive.
If its to small to bother continuing to use (<240gb), I’d just harvest the magnets out of it and destroy the disks.
I have all those HDDs and even some SDDs somewhere in a drawer thinking to use them somewhere in the future, while knowing full well that I’ll end up buying a new drive whenever I need one… 😅
Buy or make a nas/server. Good for backups, media, pihole, etc.
Scrub them then reformat and fill them with definitely not pirated stuff and definitely not scraped reddit stuff.
If it’s a piece of junk, you can always rip it apart and pull out the magnets and use the rest for target practice.
If it’s a nice drive keep it in your computer for Media Storage / Game Storage.
Buy a small board computer (RPi or something similar) and turn it into a NAS on your local network.
Use it as a backup drive for your main drive/documents.
I grandfather then through a number of systems. When it no longer makes sense: Secure wipe and donate, or drill through and dispose of.
I used to keep them forever, but ever since I got myself a NAS, i try not to let them accumulate.
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Good tip! I also encrypt all my drives - systems won’t even boot without a password.
Come to think about it, I haven’t taken a drill to any recent drive, but did a few phones and old tablets.
For work, the larger drives (4TB+) get used for archive storage alongside NVMe primaries. Everything else, at least those below 1TB used to get secure wiped then drilled but it got old fast as now we’ve got boxes and boxes of them going rusty in storage
Haven’t really used spinning disks for anything but my home NAS since 2010 or so. Which means all my old drives come out of the NAS… And either get cycled into my backup NAS or put into a multi-disk jbod enclosure that I use as “scratch” space for random data projects I’m doing on the side.
Ones that cycle out of scratch space are wiped and, if I’m being honest, sitting in a stack in my storage room. I really should stop procrastinating a trip to the recyclers…
