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What do y'all do with your old hard drives? (sopuli.xyz)
submitted 1 year ago by brihuang95@sopuli.xyz to c/pcmasterrace@lemmy.world
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I'm finally upgrading to a 1 TB SSD and i'm not sure what to do with the ol' HDD. some say they convert theirs into an external drive which sounds easy enough, but are there other potential projects?

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[–] ecks90@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

For work, the larger drives (4TB+) get used for archive storage alongside NVMe primaries. Everything else, at least those below 1TB used to get secure wiped then drilled but it got old fast as now we've got boxes and boxes of them going rusty in storage