What would you do with spare hard drives???

[ftaok]

I have a couple of hard drives that I pulled from crappy PCs that they were giving away at work. All are 3.5" drives that have very low capacities. We're talking 4.3, 3, and 2 GBs.

I don't have any desktop Macs, and external enclosures all cost about $30.

What should I do with them?

ft

 

[davisjw]

I'd say if they are of no use to you either offer them for free or use them to backup small files such as word documents..

 

[Makosuke]

Drives that small (and by definition, slow) border on useless for almost anything. If you have one of those $15 "bare" ATA-USB2 adapters, you could use them like fat, ugly removeable storage, but they're so small it's barely worth the hassle.

Personally, I'd probably keep them in a drawer in case somebody trying to keep a crusty old PC alive needed a drive like that, or just recycle them.

 

[drummerbooker14]

you could send them to me

 

[todd2000]

I don't know about drives that small but I just used a spare 80G that I didn't need for anything to upgrade the HD in my ReplayTV(DVR).. WooHooo 80Hrs of record time

 

[DZ/015]

They are far from useless. I have many old Macs lying aroung that can use older, smaller drives. Hold on to them. You never know when you may need one.

 

[ftaok]

Thanks for the suggestions. I guess I'll just throw them into a drawer for future use.

I was hoping someone knew of a way to connect them up to form a mini RAID (or something) with just a paper clip, 2 rubber bands, and some duct tape.

I would switch out the 100+MB drive out of my LC 575 sitting in the basement, but these are IDE drives and the LC 575 takes SCSI drives. Oh well.

Maybe I'll pick up a couple of old PowerMacs one day.

ft

 

[kevin.rivers]

I have some 80GB HD's for sale. All in great condition.

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/219898/

2 left.

 

[Lau]

You could make a wind chime.