What do you do with your old, working HDDs?

[Gymrat76]

I've a habit of continuing to use HDD's until they completely die off. Currently have:
120GB SSD - OS Drive
240GB SSD - Games
360GB HDD - Storage
1TB HDD - Storage
32GB HDD - Misc (WD Raptor 10k)

Now I salvaged another 1TB from an external WD HDD that I had with a busted power supply, but no more spare SATA slots to fit into my system

The 32GB is the oldest drive I have now, as well as the smallest capacity (I have SD Cards with bigger capacity!) and is the logical choice for replacement. Its a shame to chuck away a proper working HDD, so trying to see what other people do with their old but working HDDs.

 

[Alternative X]

Buy a RAID card, get more SATA ports to allow you to cram more HDDs into your case.

 

[alvintan89]

I will sell away and keep the relevant ones only.

 

[t258jgn]

Sell your WD Raptor
Some ppl looking for it.

 

[crystalnox]

Nothing, gather dust in the corner.Who wants to buy a 3.5' 120/160/250GB drive nowadays? Sell $10 also nobody can be bothered to meet up for deal. 500GB portable dirt cheap now.

 

[Gymrat76]

Sell your WD Raptor
Some ppl looking for it.

Got people looking for a 32GB drive?? I never even considered selling it cos I thought its basically obsolete

 

[Gymrat76]

Buy a RAID card, get more SATA ports to allow you to cram more HDDs into your case.

Err, don't think its worth the effort for 32GB.. I also have a 2x2TB NAS, so I have plenty of storage

 

[ArcticCheetah]

I usually use them as system disk
1)Capacity not huge
2)Reliability is there

 

[Gymrat76]

I usually use them as system disk
1)Capacity not huge
2)Reliability is there

I use my SSD for system disk now.

But hey, good suggestion, can use it to keep an image of my O/S disk

 

[enenyi]

I have quite a number of old HDDs lying ard. The bigger capacity ones I use to backup my data on my HDD, the smaller ones I use to boot Mac OSX Mavericks (via Hackintosh) or Ubuntu (for the super small capacity ones).