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What do y'all do with your old hard drives? (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/pcmasterrace

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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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[–] eppic 1 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Depends on the HDD. If they have bad SMART results or are too small, they get disassembled for the magnets. HDDs that still have some life in them are used for cold storage backups.

[–] Secret300 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

the magnets?

[–] eppic 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

HDDs have fairly large neodymium magnets in them.

[–] Secret300 1 points 2 years ago

huh didn't know that, neat

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