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What do you do with old stuff eg I have loads of physically massive (house brick), but tiny capacity USB (350Gb) hard drives kicking around as every year they seem to half in size and double in capacity?
Offsite backup or backup your familes machine & store them in the loft? I went through this, some local IT companies recycle stuff, other wise ebay (got any 2TB drives, I want 2 😉 ) or in my case I gave it to friend who home schools his kids. All the home school parents seemingly know each other and were happy to recycle kit amongst themselves. Otherwise theres always options like freecycle
Great for business disposal, may do home computing equipment - Proceeds can be donated to charity, they will wipe anything off your drives to a military standard.
No idea if it will cost you, or indeed how much.
+1 for offsite backups.
Last clearout I had, I brought it into work and shoved it into WEEE recycling. Unless anyone from work is reading, in which case, I definitely didn't do that.
backup your familes machine & store them in the loft?
Copy all the photos off your hard drive, write the date on with marker pen, store in [i]relative[/i]'s loft.
Mike, that what I meant by "off-site backup"
PS: [url= http://www.dban.org/ ]Dban[/url] them first before giving them away, to protect your data.
+1 for offsite backups.
One advantage of having a Workshop 50m from the house with GigE connection, I just back up to HDs in the workshop....
Got loads of kit just lying about the house, mostly in the loft. I usually think they'll be handy some day, but they'll never be used.
I've got a stack of a dozen drives, but the problem for backups is the drives aren't big enough for modern day PC backups. Biggest is 320gb and smallest is 6gb 😀 . Well they would be for the important documents bits, but I use my NAS plus cloud storage for all that. I like to do full drive images so I can get a quick recovery if a PC drive dies, as rebuilding can take days or weeks, so I have a 1TB drive for that.
Big drives are bulky for carry about to take offsite regularly, when you can get big SD cards that fit in a pocket.
3.5" External drives, I'm building a LEGO style sculpture with in our store cupboard
Reformat with a 4lb hammer and into recycling with the remains. Mine tend to die before I update them.
Difficult [i]and [/i]insecure, good work.
(Bloody good fun though)