what do you guys do with your old HDs?

[HBOC]

Ok, in the next month or so, after i buy AC for my laptop, I am going to upgrade the HD to a 500GB 7200RPM drive.

I was wondering to those that upgrade your internal HDs, what do you do with them? DO you buy an external enclosure? I know I will need to keep it, for warranty purposes, but I would want to put it to use, ya know?

What enclosure would be a good one? I just don't wanna spend a ton on an enclosure, as external drives are getting cheap..

 

[chas0001]

I usually get USB external enclosures on Ebay. They are very inexpensive.

 

[9822737]

I usually get USB external enclosures on Ebay. They are very inexpensive.

I second that - I've had a couple of enclosures off eBay for about a fiver.

 

[psingh01]

I put my old MBP drive in my PS3 then just kept the PS3 drive as a large portable drive. I have one of those toaster looking docks for drives. I can plug a laptop or full size drive in and use it. No need for dedicated enclosure. Just need a safe storage place for the drives when not in use.

 

[costabunny]

I used to get enclosures, but got fed up with messing about with them. Now I have a desktop enclosure (an Akasa one). Means I can swap out 3.5 and 2.5 disks for backups etc. Works rather well.

 

[J&JPolangin]

I like to get inexpensive metal enclosures just for the "protection" of the original HDD...a few bucks for the extra piece of mind is worth it IMHOP.

 

[Hellhammer]

I usually just put them to somewhere in closet or something and if I need more HD space I take a look is there any. I get quite a lot of HDs from my work which I never even use (some old stock stuff and those which I take from repair, but never enough big ones ). I don't really use smaller than 1TB drives because smaller ones fills up so fast

 

[MacKiddyWiddy]

I either buy an enclosure or if the space is less then 500gb i take a sledgehammer to it and then take it to a skip because you dont want people sneaking at your files lol

 

[HBOC]

hey if you actually do that to hard drives with less the 1/2 TB, send one to me. The largest I have is 500GB..

 

[TheNightPhoenix]

I usually open mine up to see where the numbers live, and let them free!

 

[mikes63737]

I put them in my server. So far, it consists of 2.58 TB of drives. Not too bad for a poor college student.

 

[Dr.Pants]

Time Machine and OS clones. Not to mention they're convenient to have around when the itch to try a new OS comes up.