Re:To a child, often the box a toy came in is more appealing...
by logfromblammo on Monday February 16, 2015 @10:40AM
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My collection would be better used as paperweights. I think the one on the bottom of the stack might be a 4 GB drive. At one point, I actually got rid of everything smaller than that.
My solution was to just get a cheap and prone to failure external enclosure, and copy the old drives to the largest one I had at the time. Whatever I might spend on an enclosure for multiple older drives could probably get me one new external drive big enough to hold everything on those drives.
This may be why there are few commercial solutions to this particular problem. By the time an internal drive is old enough to be swapped out, it's usually more worthwhile to copy it to a cheap new external drive than to try to reuse it anywhere else.
My solution was to just get a cheap and prone to failure external enclosure, and copy the old drives to the largest one I had at the time. Whatever I might spend on an enclosure for multiple older drives could probably get me one new external drive big enough to hold everything on those drives.
This may be why there are few commercial solutions to this particular problem. By the time an internal drive is old enough to be swapped out, it's usually more worthwhile to copy it to a cheap new external drive than to try to reuse it anywhere else.