What do you with old 3.5" HDDs? I've been going through
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What do you with old 3.5" HDDs?
I've been going through some old hard drives, destroying the ones that don't work and keeping the ones that still have some life in them. I don't have any room to put them in my PC and I kind of don't want to use an enclosure since the large ones usually require an external power source.
>>55029365
Also, one is a 20 GB IDE, the other two are 500/320 GB SATA drives.
>>55029365
What do you do with your used toilet paper?
Wipe with many passes, stick into garbage/cheap machines with no HDDs, get machine running, give to poor people. When businesses toss machines into dumpsters it's usually the HDD missing because of security concerns. Otherwise they're ready to roll.
>>55029408
You can't compost hard drives...
>>55029437
>Wipe with many passes, stick into garbage/cheap machines with no HDDs, get machine running, give to poor people.
If I don't find any other use for them, I might try this.
>>55029458
For what it's worth, the overwhelming majority of poor people I'm talking about are high school and college students. Education is a totally different ballgame when one doesn't have a reliable personal computer. Laptops are best because of the built-in display but people will take towers too.
i could really use a dozen 500mb drives