These days, new HDDs are becoming ten times larger every few years. But if you've been using the things well, you'll end up with a few old ones. Sure, the data will go to the new ones, but then what?
How do you deal with it?
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Cool idea – I’m looking – thank you
I’ll keep them iaR.
Earlier than I still actively operated the domestic self-construction NAS (now before the last year until the dissolution in the 40TB expansion stage net capacity), I retrieved the complete set once every 3.5 years (mostly against 30,000 operating hours since 24/7 operation) and sold the old records accordingly.
These were then 6 records that formed the Raid network, which I also overwritten with zeros before the sale.
The plates were surprisingly value-stable above the last decade, so it was worth selling in any case.
With the SSD ́s, I am similar as needed. I have never died from the SSD ́s (have even a more than 10 years old EVO840 with over 30k operating hours and according to SMART values more than 120 times fully written, which still leaves). From the classic HDD ́s the last defect is also over 10 years ago.
As a house number I have received about the last 2-3 jumps all as I said ~3,5 years, each about 60-70% of the original paid new price for the 6th Stack HDD ́s – this is already calculating…. significantly better at any rate than they hunt through the wolf 😉 .
So I still have any hard drive of my PCs somewhere in a cardboard box. I’ve done a dozen times to look at it and see what I want to keep, but it’s still getting nix out.
In the cabinet, let 🙂 at least some. Usually they come into my NAS (yes just a 1TB plate) but I have some that I would no longer use due to the age and running performance. If you really need to dispose of, but simply don’t, because of any private data
if they are hardly worth anything, I overwrite the hard drives with a dedicated program and then drill 6 holes with a metal drill, (4 on the disks and 2 on the board) and then dispose of them on a valuable material farm
With a deletion program 1x completely overwrite, reformat and sell, with honest indication of the duration and type of use. Is not much work and has therefore always been rewarded from my point of view.
Really ancient, for which there would be only a few euros: 1x completely overwrite and then to the Wertstoffhof – electric scrap.
Jaaaa, with the corresponding means and effort, one could possibly read 1x of data overwritten with magnetic data carriers. But let’s see realistically: who should make this insane effort, independent of thought, with what benefit?
Depends on how old the hard drive was and what data was on it.
The last hard drive, a 2TB HDD, I have psychologically destroyed with a magnet, because my entire data backup was there, so all private data. I’m missing the time to “zero” the hard drive, so just stopped destroying.
Hello!
That’s different.
For example, I still use them elsewhere or find a different application purpose and therefore use different HDDs or components. Some HDDs are decorative objects and are closed and partly disassembled in my showcase. Looks like a “open” hard drive. The technology is already crassed.
In addition, I am a bastard and have once tested different controllers, developed, soldered and repaired. And, as I teach myself a lot about “learning by doing” myself, something is sometimes broken. In this respect, the loss does not hurt me at all.
I use halfway defective plates for training or for learning purposes. Here and there I also test data recovery, backup, backups, Wipen, Recovery, MFT, GPT etc.
I’m just gonna do something for you if I’ve deleted everything safely before and HDDs still work. I don’t waste any scrap.
I have very little “defect” plates. It’s very rare. Even ancient records that I received from the grandpa or father run perfectly. It is more likely that the newer plates “here” die, because everything must always be “smaller” (components) and faster. In addition, the storage requirement increases.
Uralt plates are then either cleaned/deleted, then sold, sold or disposed of (specialist).
Since a safe deletion is cost-intensive and time-intensive, it can be useful from quantity x to commission a prof. company. I bought Diskwiper hardware, but that also cost money. So I can delete four drives parallel to standard xyz certified. This has already been amortized since I sold various hard drives.
I often get the fun and buy HDDs and PCs from Ebay/Kleinanzeigen. Worse that most people do not take data protection “seriously”.
What I’ve found. Once, I even found something “criminal” relevant. Mostly, I contact the sellers and school, wisely, to help them to better deal with their own data in the future.
I would always advise you not to resell a used hard drive once again if the hard drive is not correct
has been so “cleaned” that even with different tools the data cannot be restored.
That’s why the correct destruction of such a hard drive is really important!
https://www.festplatte.com/zerstoeren-safe-entsorgen/
I have either sold or given away all the fixed sheets that were still usable and for which I had no use.
But I still have 3 hard drives 1x8TB and 2x4TB. The 4TB plates are in a removable frame and one of them serves as a backup drive. The other 4TB and the 8TB HDD as data grave for movies, music, etc.
Well – you’re ahead of me – I still have those from the time under 1Tb – i.e. 500-750 Gb – that’s quite close
Well, for a “work”, internet or second computer without great demands, or for data transport, or as a “intermediate memory”, these still do. You won’t get much more than 10 €. Let’s decide whether it’s worth the business with advert and sending (maybe for “sustainability reasons”;-) or not.
That’s why I partially gave away the old records. Was last a 500GB 2.5″ HDD and I still had an extense case for it. My neighbor was happy.
Leave in a bath of vinegar and water, then on the scrap.
Nobody wants an old used HDD.
I’m just sorting out records when you’re broken. After working with a suggestion hammer, the residues go into the electric scrap.
Hello,
I don’t have so many old storage media. So they’re in the basement. In some cases, I have built an old hard drive into a PC or used as a BackUp solution.
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I sold them all, only have 2x 2 TB in a NAS I don’t use anymore, I’ll keep them.
And then, of course, in the electric scrap.
Use is missing.
That would be a craft project – if I looked at how big the records are now, then the option of reusing would be a laugh number (there are hardly any movies going on). Thanks anyway – I have a few more in such media players (on TV) – I’ll take it further.
No, it wouldn’t be a craft project. Finally, they are simply still installed as storage medium in the computers used. And even plates with 100 MB are helpful here.
I use it as a storage medium