I've got an 8 Gb IDE hard drive from way back in the day, what should I do with it? |
I've got an 8 Gb IDE hard drive from way back in the day, what should I do with it? |
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I recently decided to upgrade the hard drive in one of my older servers from an 8Gb Western Digital Caviar from '99 to a faster 80 Gb Seagate Barricuda, and this leaves me with a fairly useless low capacity drive.
Any ideas on what to do with it? |
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Take it apart, and nail the discs on your wall. Geek art.
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By a case for it and somehow turn it into a usb drive. But it would be the hugest usb drive ever.
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By a case for it and somehow turn it into a usb drive. But it would be the hugest usb drive ever. I was thinking maybe an external hard drive, but I would be better off buying another 80 Gb drive for $40, and using that. But if I did that, I would buy the same drive and set up a raid system instead. |
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Make speakers.
lol I think I still have some 600mb hard drives in my garage. |
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I mean, its 8gb, and you probably have enough external, and internal storage already. I cant think of anything practical to do.
how to |
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How inconvenient.
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How are you supposed to turn an internal hard drive into speakers? I've seen it done, but it always ends up sounding like crap. Also, that server originally had a 650 Mb hard drive, until I got it about two years ago. I got the drive out of another old computer that was almost completely dead. |
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Whats the point of a server with 650 mb? You could only store like 300 photos.
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What do you use it for?
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throw it away.
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put like 4 porn videos in it
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not much you can do with it.
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