Old Hard Drives

[CrushedIce]

I just got a Raptor drive, and I have to say I freakin' love it!!!!!
Man, I was planning on using my old HD as a slave, but it slows it down.
It kinda sucks to have a sweet 400gb drive laying around collecting dust, while I balze around with my new lightweight 80gb drive, but I just have to.
This thing is so awesome for gaming.

Anybody here, got some old HDs laying around(not necessarily because of a Rator upgrade)?

 

[Genocidicbunny]

One HDD shouldnt slow down another one if both are SATA. If it is, you have deeper flaws in your pc. So plug both in, install your OS on the Raptor and use the 400GB as storage for media, backups, etc.

On topic now: I have plenty of HDD's lying around. In fact, I have a lot. I have 3 boxes containing appx. 45 old HDD's: several 6GB's, 3 old laptop drives, 30 or so 20GB's and the rest are 40GB's with one old IDE 100GB. They come in several interfaces, from SCSI 320 to SATA and SAS. Ive also got several SAS and SCSI controller cards. In fact, one of these I used in a recent build. I put a 15k RPM SAS disk into my folding rig to make it nice and speedy ( mainly for the boot and startup times on the clients). The rest of them just gather dust. They're too small to really use for anything and the SCSI and SAS drives need either a server-class motherboard or a controller card. I can still think of several uses for the IDE drives, primarily to make a thin-client HTPC ( Stream media off my desktop which is not in the living room). I wouldnt need a large HDD, nor a really fast one, so the 100GB IDE would work just fine for that ( gotta make sure to have some room for temp/cache files)

Somewhat on topic: in addition to old HDD's, I have plenty of other old computer parts lying around -- 200w PSU's, P3/P4 motherboards, old CPU's such as 1.6ghz P4 and 1.3ghz Xeons, loads of old RAM, etc. The stuff's really too old to be donated to anything useful anymore, and out of all the parts, I dont think there's more than a few complete pc's.

 

[IglooDame]

I've got a bunch of old parts lying around (rather like GB) but in my case I'm a network admin so I'm not sure it counts.

I've got a couple dozen old server HDs (9GB SCSIs mostly) that I'm getting ready to dispose of, should be a fun session.


(Disposal = data destruction via large-caliber pistol)

 

[Bratmon]

I have a few around here. Let me see... I have a 212 mB drive from before I was born. And a now-dead 3gB HD. The death of that was my last use of Windows ME or earlier. It went up in flames.

 

[Zelig]

I cleaned house a couple weeks ago, and got rid of all my old computer parts I'm never going to use again.

Slowest processor I kept was a 2.2 GHz Athlon XP, smallest HDD I kept was 120GB.

In practice, the smallest drives I use in any of my computers are currently a pair of drives 320GB, which I'll likely be replacing with a pair of 1TB drives shortly.

I don't see much point in Raptor drives, it's cheaper to get 2x1tb drives than a 150GB Raptor, and running them in RAID 0 gives significantly better performance than a single Raptor.

 

[Genocidicbunny]

I've got a bunch of old parts lying around (rather like GB) but in my case I'm a network admin so I'm not sure it counts.

I've got a couple dozen old server HDs (9GB SCSIs mostly) that I'm getting ready to dispose of, should be a fun session.


(Disposal = data destruction via large-caliber pistol)

Ah, Ive already disposed of some of mine in similar ways ( I used to have nearly 100 old HDD's -- lots of scrap metal )
Thermite and a forge are a lot of fun

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

It kinda sucks to have a sweet 400gb drive laying around collecting dust, while I balze around with my new lightweight 80gb drive, but I just have to.

Dance around a fire going HOY YAY HOY YAY HOY YAY and sacrifice it to the gods.

Or use it for your Tom Petty porn collection!