Got around 30 of these laying around ranging from 80GB to 320GB.
I assume they are useless these days, not even worth using them in a NAS due to the power consumption per GB being awful compared to modern drives?
Got around 30 of these laying around ranging from 80GB to 320GB
Michael Allen
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Robert Cooper
Use for vintage pc project or sell on ebay.
Oliver Price
If you put them all in raid 0 it will be faster than an ssd.
Owen Thomas
You could get a buttload of IDE to sata adapters and put them in a modern system, but you'd waste a lot of money on that, as well as an enclosure to fit that many drives in and powering them.
It wouldn't be worth the effort of doing that, compared to just going out and buying a 2TB drive or some shit.
Charles White
Do this.
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Josiah Fisher
just hide them in random places and wait for anons to find them
Dylan Evans
Just put some backups on them and stuff them in the closet. A NAS made of all of those will be slow, power-hungry and a PITA to use (unless you make a single volume spanning many drives, but in this case RIP reliability)
Elijah Davis
there is some bitcoin you mine by plugging harddrives into your computer in mass not sure what it does I assume it sells your storage for cloud storage or some thing.
probably is a bad idea but could use them for that.
Connor Foster
>320GB
I still use 320GB drives for backups. They're SATA though.
Josiah King
Stop it Dave
Wyatt Turner
Thanks for the great ideas. In the end I decided to just get the magnets out of them
Landon Campbell
Resell on ebay. Retro users will buy them.
Lucas Cox
What's a good HDD secure erase software for when I want to sell drives?
Daniel Taylor
Have like 2000 ide, wanna go full nostalgia, but im afraid il need older windows and older hardware is there anyway to avoid it like try virtual machine it or someshit ?
Benjamin Davis
A hammer
Isaiah Walker
It will also be extremely susceptible to data loss
Jayden Torres
Hell yeah.
I would have said to use them for ZFS experiments. Try different configs yourself rather than just reading random forum posts.
Asher Martin
dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sdb bs=1M
Jayden Jenkins
so I have like 30 extra hard drives all around 160 - 500gb
should I toss them? I was looking into powering them all and running them all on some micro server over usb, speed wouldn't really matter just dumb storage
I saw wiring up 12v and 5v big rail to power like 10 of them is very easy. Is there some type of $1 cable that does sata data to usb?
Nathaniel Harris
Nope.
DBAN.
Thomas Sanders
Sell to retro idiots.
Samuel Lewis
1-pass dban does literally the same thing, and you don't need more if you're just going to sell the drives on ebay.
Also dban guys are now pushing some paid shit so they stopped updating it.
Nathan Price
>$1 cable that does sata data to usb?
think $15, just google sata to USB
Ryan Kelly
yea that's way too fucking expensive to run on like 30 drives. You can nearly get an entire hard drive enclosure for that price. Which includes power supply etc.
amazon.com
these are for sata power & data to usb. can't be used for 3.5hdd cuz it uses 12volts. however if you break it in half you can use the data part to usb and run your own power to the HDD
trying to find something that does that broken in half part.
Sebastian Powell
just buy one and manually swap the drives like a tape library
Joshua Martin
Use photorec on them and blackmail people.
Logan Bennett
I already have a fucking HDD docking station, who doesn't?
Zachary Gray
Shhh user... no smart answers here only memes
Ryder James
most compact one.
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ebay.com
take the sata data and run it from hdd to usb then run your own power to the hdd
ez
Elijah Barnes
perfect for backup and shit website hosting
Wyatt Phillips
what a fucking waste
Matthew Morales
they're useful for original xbox modding cuz it's not sata