Used hard drives
Do you re-use them??? Say what you think about them. I honestly don't see the point of buying a 3TB drive for an office system, and think of the environment.
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absolutely!
i look at smart,run a full write and read test,and if ok i use them.
if its been running a long time with nothing scary in smart it will probably outlast its usefullness. -
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For my own computers, I often use new hard drives. But for computers I sell and some of my computers I use I re-use used disks.Comment
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Yes, I re-use hard drives. If for a customer, I limit to a 30 day warranty, or remainder of factory, whichever is longer.
My testing procedure is - Check SMART, read scan test, 3x write 0's test. This also ensures that all the previous data on the drive is gone.Ludicrous gibs!
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Yea it is a good Idea if your computer can support a new drive I would add one. Open you tower case and look for the ribbon cable that connects to you harddrive that is already on you computer. If you have another harddrive plug on that ribbon you can install a new harddrive quick and easy. All you need to do is set jumps to your slave harddrive and you are ready to plug in.
You might even look into making a custom portable harddrive with your spare.Comment
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If they come up clean after a full check-out, sure I reuse them...but typically not for mission critical stuff if they're really old or have an extreme amount of hours on them. Any drive that has relocated sectors is relegated to use in crap systems, which are cheap and sold as-is.<--- Badcaps.net Founder
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By the way, what is the smallest hard drive you'd consider useful??? I'd go for 40GB.Comment
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I've used some 20gb drives for some d530's I reconditioned. Holds the OS and any useful programs that a machine of that era would effectively run (WinXP, MS Office, Outlook, basic photo editing stuff, etc...), with room to spare. They're great internet browsing and email machines.<--- Badcaps.net Founder
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I test them and if they pass without issues I use them on non critical builds. As for size the smallest I have used recentlly was a 6.4GB to run WinXP, Telenet, FPT etc.
Oh that reminds me if anyone has any 3.5" SATA drives they want to unload I am in need of them, no size too small, Im looking for around 12 drives.Comment
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Smallest I consider useful is 80GB. Anything smaller just goes straight to the metal recyclers.I love putting bad caps and flat batteries in fire and watching them explode!!
No wonder it doesn't work! You installed the jumper wires backwards
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While 40GB is the smallest I'd feel confident putting in someone else's system I don't get rid of the smaller drives unless they're D.E.A.D.
Note also that I try to avoid using drives with ball bearing spindle motors whenever possible due to the noise. I'd take a 40GB FDB over an 80GB BB any day.Comment
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I agree under 80gb is pretty useless. Not counting my 64GB ssd and the 40GB drives in the $100 Linux boxes we sell at work...Comment
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I love putting bad caps and flat batteries in fire and watching them explode!!
No wonder it doesn't work! You installed the jumper wires backwards
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Office PC: HP ProLiant ML150 G3, 2x Xeon E5335 2GHz, 4GB DDR2 RAM, 120GB Intel 530 SSD, 2x 250GB HDD, 2x 450GB 15K SAS HDD in RAID 1, 1x 2TB HDD, nVidia 8400GS, Delta DPS-650BB 650W PSU, Windows 7 ProComment
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Yes, but no one uses their PCs purely for the net around here. Most people have enough photos and videos to fill 40GB drives up. I know of a few people who fill their 1TB HDDs up.I love putting bad caps and flat batteries in fire and watching them explode!!
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i would also reuse them as long as they test good
slightly of topic but whats the best free or paid software you guys are using to test used drives with cheersLast edited by vinceroger69; 03-31-2012, 07:02 AM.Comment
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i save any hdd that is good.
lots of oddball industrial stuff that rejects newer high capacity drives even with the limit jumpers set.
bad ones get stripped for magnets and scrapped unless its something useful for the board and parts for a data recovery job.Comment
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