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Finally got round to decommissioning some old PCs. One slinky hard drive is working well as an external with a £3 mount from amazon but I'm struggling to find a useful mount for a couple of seagate HDs. It's IDE and quite bulky but 40G so probably worth using. Any recommendations ?
Cheers
I'm all for reusing stuff but I'm assuming if it's come from a PC it's 3.5", so pretty old if its ide and that small. By the time you've faffed about with cables, enclosures and power supplies all you'll have is an inconvenient external drive of uncertain reliability and trivial storage capacity.
When ebuyer are doing a 32Gb USB stick for £9.99 I'd recommend you just chuck the old thing.
Fair enough. Is 'just chucking' secure enough?
DBAN.
I smash them up with a hammer. Not that there's much exciting on them.
As above in my view 40GB isnt worth keeping or spending the money on an external enclosure/caddy.
If it's still accessible without much effort, what Cougar said. Otherwise what cp said will be fine.
If it was me I'd have wiped it before decommissioning the PC, then bashed it with a hammer, but I like to be thorough.
Yes, it was wiped first so I guess I'll just bash it.
Cheers all.
5 seconds in an e-class microwave will render it dead. Then take it apart with a multi tool, use the platters as coasters and the magnets as the best toy ever: like everyone else in IT does.
When you can 64gb usb sticks for 30-40 quid a 40gb hard drive seems like bin-fodder to me.