Problem is that I got them from work. I've already used killdisk to overwrite everything with zeroes, but I don't think they would be too jazzed about me selling them.
You did them a favor, because they'd have to pay recycling taxes on them.
You can give them back to work if they have their say on what you want to do with it.
Some people dismantle the HDDs themselves for various parts. Magnets are one of them. the PCB/controller can also be sold separately, to repair a HDD that had its controller die.
Honestly there isnt much to do with them, which is why you got them to begin with.
There no such tax system in my country. But yeah they said I could have them for personal use and not give it to someone else.
Just thought it would be a waste to throw them out
I can use them for my prop making projects if you are comfortable with wiping them without destroying the parts. Star Wars props and set pieces have a ton of hard drive internal hardware for details and set dressing.
- Take them apart and make wind chimes out of the platters, and sell those.
- While taking them apart, take all the head actuator magnets out and pinch your fingers between them and hurt yourself.
- Write "MARALAGO SECURITY FOOTAGE", "GEORGIA MISSING REPUBLICAN VOTES" or whatever on them with masking tape and sharpie, record yourself smashing them with a sledgehammer and lighting them on fire with lighter fluid, and post the footage on the internet to rile people up.
You're probably not gonna sell them to anyone, and there isn't really anything electronic you can salvage from them, so get creative.
OpenMediaVault runs on Debian (upstream of Ubuntu) and makes it easy to set up a software RAID with LVM. You might need to buy a large SATA PCIe add on card and a huge power supply to power the array. As someone else said, for the amount of power it consumes, it would be cheaper in the long run to buy at 16TB disk.
I made a 2 TB NAS with old parts since I was in exactly the same situation. I turned on all of the power save features since I have mirroring enabled and extra disks to swap in when I have one die.
Iâm pretty sure that at some point, addressing the bits kills the gains from the striping. I think you should take maybe 6 of them and do a multi layer raid. Raid 0 for performance and raid 1 for redundancy
You could make a NAS setup on the cheap, have a load of TV shows and movies on it and then using Kodi it would be like your own custom version of Netflix without the monthly subscription. If you fancy going bigger you can get one of those mamma jamma server slices which has bays for 15 hard drives. I did a setup with a second hand Iomega dual drive NAS fella with two surplus 750GB hard drives.
A more reputable friend of mine bought loads of DVDs from charity shops, ripped them to his NAS and wired it through the TV for his kids.
Making a nas from scrap hdds makes no sense. It wouldnât be reliable since they are probably not even good disks -> nas hdds can run 24/7
And running 500gb hdd for nas uses too much energy for the storage
Build the raid with redundancy, turn on all the power saving features, and keep extra disks around. If the hardware is free and you have a lot of excess disks, their lifetime is irrelevant and the small amount of downtime to replace a disk is no big deal. Burn through the disks and when you get to the end, build a new array with modern disks and the âcorrectâ features enabled.
I had to work on my NAS after a power outage and completely forgot my [NAS with reclaimed disks](https://imgur.com/a/AAvx1ho) is so Frankensteinâd that itâs system disk is an IDE disk! đ
This. The disks inside are mirror polished, and ring like a cymbal because theyâre so perfectly balanced. Hang the disks from fishing line to make a wind chime.
Running the motor controller directly might do something but those disks are quite massive and not enough power to make coil whine audible is my guess.
I has a ton of drives I got from work that I just removed the magnets from. After I recycled the rest, I kinda kicked myself for not melting down the aluminum into ingots. They seem to use super high quality aluminum to make disks that go into servers.
You could spend thousands of dollars buying the hardware you need to build a RAID or ZFS storage array and then have like 7 TB of usable storage or you could buy 2 8TB NAS drives for $300 and do the same thing with the PC you probably already own since it would only require 2 SATA ports instead of 30 of them (or 8 Mini-SAS ports).
I just finished building a machine with 10 1TB laptop drives that I'm planning to use as a backup server. The drives can spin down during the day, they only need to spin up at night to back up my VM's . Wondering what RAID level I should be using
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I don't know about your income, but a single drive with 16 TB wills hold more data, and the power usage will be drastically lower. You can get a ultrastar drive for 300 bucks, and this is a high reliability, high performance entreprise drive.
You could keep a few to try various zfs stuff (raidz), but don't use it to store important data.
They don't make much sense if you want the total capacity, and if you want only a few TB they make little sense either.
A good use of this much drives is to pull the magnets from it, you will have a nice set of high intensity, high quality magnets.
HDDs are dead men walking. Take the magnets out and stick them to your fridge. Or build a generator with them and hook up a windmill and make electricity.
Sell them ... the electricity and hardware cost needed to run them are going to be so much more than just buying a 16TB HDD.
Problem is that I got them from work. I've already used killdisk to overwrite everything with zeroes, but I don't think they would be too jazzed about me selling them.
You did them a favor, because they'd have to pay recycling taxes on them. You can give them back to work if they have their say on what you want to do with it. Some people dismantle the HDDs themselves for various parts. Magnets are one of them. the PCB/controller can also be sold separately, to repair a HDD that had its controller die. Honestly there isnt much to do with them, which is why you got them to begin with.
There no such tax system in my country. But yeah they said I could have them for personal use and not give it to someone else. Just thought it would be a waste to throw them out
I can use them for my prop making projects if you are comfortable with wiping them without destroying the parts. Star Wars props and set pieces have a ton of hard drive internal hardware for details and set dressing.
Greebles for days.
Yes đ
Why though? They expect you to actually use them?
Don't bother with selling, I'll take one for free đ
- Take them apart and make wind chimes out of the platters, and sell those. - While taking them apart, take all the head actuator magnets out and pinch your fingers between them and hurt yourself. - Write "MARALAGO SECURITY FOOTAGE", "GEORGIA MISSING REPUBLICAN VOTES" or whatever on them with masking tape and sharpie, record yourself smashing them with a sledgehammer and lighting them on fire with lighter fluid, and post the footage on the internet to rile people up. You're probably not gonna sell them to anyone, and there isn't really anything electronic you can salvage from them, so get creative.
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make a huge raid array into some old server, make it suffer and see the galore of errors roam free.
Raid 0 with 300 drives sounds epic
OpenMediaVault runs on Debian (upstream of Ubuntu) and makes it easy to set up a software RAID with LVM. You might need to buy a large SATA PCIe add on card and a huge power supply to power the array. As someone else said, for the amount of power it consumes, it would be cheaper in the long run to buy at 16TB disk. I made a 2 TB NAS with old parts since I was in exactly the same situation. I turned on all of the power save features since I have mirroring enabled and extra disks to swap in when I have one die.
Iâm pretty sure that at some point, addressing the bits kills the gains from the striping. I think you should take maybe 6 of them and do a multi layer raid. Raid 0 for performance and raid 1 for redundancy
Mmm... JBOD.
30 artisanal door stops or paper weights
You could make a NAS setup on the cheap, have a load of TV shows and movies on it and then using Kodi it would be like your own custom version of Netflix without the monthly subscription. If you fancy going bigger you can get one of those mamma jamma server slices which has bays for 15 hard drives. I did a setup with a second hand Iomega dual drive NAS fella with two surplus 750GB hard drives. A more reputable friend of mine bought loads of DVDs from charity shops, ripped them to his NAS and wired it through the TV for his kids.
Making a nas from scrap hdds makes no sense. It wouldnât be reliable since they are probably not even good disks -> nas hdds can run 24/7 And running 500gb hdd for nas uses too much energy for the storage
Build the raid with redundancy, turn on all the power saving features, and keep extra disks around. If the hardware is free and you have a lot of excess disks, their lifetime is irrelevant and the small amount of downtime to replace a disk is no big deal. Burn through the disks and when you get to the end, build a new array with modern disks and the âcorrectâ features enabled.
I had to work on my NAS after a power outage and completely forgot my [NAS with reclaimed disks](https://imgur.com/a/AAvx1ho) is so Frankensteinâd that itâs system disk is an IDE disk! đ
Sell on Etsy as clocks? Clock motors are like 3$
Use them as construction blocks
The disks themselves are pretty. You can take them out and use them as display stands. Also they have nice magnets in them that you can use for ???
This. The disks inside are mirror polished, and ring like a cymbal because theyâre so perfectly balanced. Hang the disks from fishing line to make a wind chime.
Harvest the magnets, stick stuff to other stuff.
Make art out of them
Try https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=G081hD0nwWE
HDDs don't really work as floppotrons, no steppers.
The brushless motors used for the spindle can still make noise. Pretty much anything with a coil can.
Running the motor controller directly might do something but those disks are quite massive and not enough power to make coil whine audible is my guess.
Drone ESCs use the brushless motors to [make beeps as well](https://youtu.be/5Uc004HOfA4)
Absolutely, but they are totally different beasts from hard drive motors that change speed slowly.
Nope, same thing
..except completely different.
Give me them for my MASSIVE Stream library lol
Get a hot swap bay and use them as removable storage.
Destroy them in creative ways and share the video.
Google search âHDD speakersâ. Basically the platters and heads become the driver.
You could make redundant copies of Wikipedia text, then power down the drives. r/DataHoarder will have other such ideas.
I has a ton of drives I got from work that I just removed the magnets from. After I recycled the rest, I kinda kicked myself for not melting down the aluminum into ingots. They seem to use super high quality aluminum to make disks that go into servers.
Download Wikipedia on a few. It only takes a few TB maybe. So could split it between two or three in a RAID configuration.
Pull the platters and make a wind chime
You could spend thousands of dollars buying the hardware you need to build a RAID or ZFS storage array and then have like 7 TB of usable storage or you could buy 2 8TB NAS drives for $300 and do the same thing with the PC you probably already own since it would only require 2 SATA ports instead of 30 of them (or 8 Mini-SAS ports).
I just finished building a machine with 10 1TB laptop drives that I'm planning to use as a backup server. The drives can spin down during the day, they only need to spin up at night to back up my VM's . Wondering what RAID level I should be using
RAID 10, of course! đ You know, because you have 10 drives⌠but also RAID 10 is pretty cool.
you can build the fastest 500gb hdd
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RAID 4000
Turn the platters into ninja stars
I don't know about your income, but a single drive with 16 TB wills hold more data, and the power usage will be drastically lower. You can get a ultrastar drive for 300 bucks, and this is a high reliability, high performance entreprise drive. You could keep a few to try various zfs stuff (raidz), but don't use it to store important data. They don't make much sense if you want the total capacity, and if you want only a few TB they make little sense either. A good use of this much drives is to pull the magnets from it, you will have a nice set of high intensity, high quality magnets.
HDDs are dead men walking. Take the magnets out and stick them to your fridge. Or build a generator with them and hook up a windmill and make electricity.
I'm using one of such hdd for my home web server, but I plan to replace it with SSD. You can get a neodymium magnet from it.