what to do with all of the old 120/200/250GB drives?

[SYN ACK]

I will soon have about 4 or 5 drives ranging from 120-200-250gb.
Kinda stumped on what to do with them.

Any ideas?

[Monkey God]

fleabay? target practice?

[CarlsonCustoms]

I've run into this issue too and what I did was copy some UBER important documents etc to them and leave them at my parents house for safekeeping for the off chance I ever need them. They aren't worth selling to me but nice for just in case offsite storage.

Zack

[Ockie]

I've run into this issue too and what I did was copy some UBER important documents etc to them and leave them at my parents house for safekeeping for the off chance I ever need them. They aren't worth selling to me but nice for just in case offsite storage.

Zack


I think this is the most logical idea IMO. If you have a safety deposit box or another location you can leave them in, even better.

[khanable]

find a 4-5disk jbod enclosure and make one large disk space?

[[LYL]Homer]

WHS....

[SockMan!]

I'm assuming they're older drives. In that case, I would just use them for offsite archival backups. Or use them in older spare computers.

[mryerse]

I liked the target practice idea.

[mwarps]

craigslist.

Or just a massive slow storage box.

[SC385]

Off-site storage is the best idea I've heard.

[GORANKAR]

You might be able sell all of them for enough to buy yourself a new 1TB drive.

[mpeg4v3]

When I finally upgraded from my couple-years-old 1.4tb RAID5 array that consisted of 8 200gb Seagates to my current WHS system with 1TB drives, I sold all seven of the drives that still had about 1.5 years of warranty left on them for about $30-35/each. Granted, part of the allure might have been their warranty remaining, but that was pretty decent for such old drives. Of course, this was a few months ago- before it seems like the entire hard drive market cut prices by ridiculous percentages.

[Hulk]

I might buy a couple of them from you if you list a target price. Also which model and manufacturer are they? How fast are they? And how old?

[Kil4Thril]

I might buy a couple of them from you if you list a target price. Also which model and manufacturer are they? How fast are they? And how old?

I may do the same.

OP, you could get something like a BlacX and use the drives. I put important stuff on my smaller 80GB drives, and file them in a gun safe.

[thebeephaha]

Homer;1033407219']WHS....

+1

WHS kicks ass.

[Pocatello]

+1

WHS kicks ass.

+2

Windows Home Server.

[jcolby]

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[jcolby]

(16) No BUYING, TRADING, or SELLING anywhere with the exception of the For Sale / Trade forum. The FS/T forum has its own set of specific rules. Please read their rules before posting in that forum. [H]ard|Forum is NOT RESPONSIBLE for any loss due to any sale or exchange of any item in the For Sale / Trade forum. Caveat Emptor!!

My apologies. Someone further up in this thread mentioned that they were interested in buying small hard disks so I responded.

[Brahmzy]

I've found that shooting them with 3" magnum 1 1/2 ounce slugs out of my Benelli M2 shotty gives a certain satisfaction worth far more than a few dollars on eBay. I mean slugs really do the job.

[jcolby]

ROTFL. I don't have anything that big!