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

submitted 1 year 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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[–] CatZoomies 5 points 1 year ago

Same here. It's important to preserve these things that can easily disappear from the internet forever. After the recent lawsuit with the Internet Archive for lending eBooks without the publisher's permission during the Coronavirus pandemic, they may be in serious trouble and we might lose a significant amount of our recent history.

Data can disappear, so I constantly advocate for others to back up their stuff locally as well as online. Just doing backups through trusted services like Western Digital, Google, etc. can still lead to data loss, so it's important to have a 3-2-1 backup strategy (3 backups, 2 physical backups in different locations, 1 online at a minimum). Just for the things you can't afford to lose.

Western Digital customers who trusted the WD Live service to backup their data suddenly found that all their data was gone, without their permission: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/06/mass-data-wipe-in-my-book-devices-prompts-warning-from-western-digital/