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What do y'all do with your old hard drives? (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.