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?
hoard them. I have a stack of like 10 hard drives and 4 laptop hard drives. If I need one I move all the files off of it onto another.
I moved it to my new PC with the plan of copying everything over to the new, bigger HDD as a backup for all the stuff that has followed my upgrade chain since 1995.
Then I put that off a couple months, and the old hard drive died.
It’s been a few years since that happened and I’m still so incredibly upset about that.
Depends on the HDD. If they have bad SMART results or are too small, they get disassembled for the magnets. HDDs that still have some life in them are used for cold storage backups.
Does anyone else find that things like this go faster if sold for a low, low price versus given away free?
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
