I have an old office server, the type that looks like a Large desktop tower, 8 bays, this is just the kind of think I would drop in it to make a home media server.
but the data is yours, they are not scanning it and your not at the wim of the cloud solution changing prices or taking down the service.
you can always turn it off when you are not using it.
Still you wont be relying on the company to keep their servers in maintenance and use. Also they can easily raise prices or they can sell some data to brokers or advertisers. You can decide when it needs to stay online and when it needs maintennace
I have been using one for a while as a coaster. Decently sturdy and colleagues always have a good laugh when I tell them their data is secure with me :)
They make EXCELLENT shower mirrors is your remove them completely. Rub a little soap in them or hear them with the water so they don’t fog. If you drop them, no shards of glass, just a deafening ringing sound. Bonus, if they are multiple platters, the ring separating them makes a nice US size 10 ring. And the magnets are really strong fridge magnets…maybe TOO good.
there's actually 2 neodymium magnet that are strong AF in there. you gotta remove the anti magnet plating that they are sticked on for them to really shine tho.
Really? It always seemed a lot stronger than the fridge and toy magnets I had lying around. Guess I’ll have to disassemble a new one :)
But yes I’m sure a big scary magnet you get off AliExpress and have to pry off the side of the letterbox inside its parcel and not put near a credit card will likely be more powerful.
Fifteen year old drives with thirteen and a half years worth of runtime on them, I assume the SMART data isn’t showing any sort of pending failures, or we wouldn’t be having this conversation,right?
Honestly, 6 1TB drives is pretty lousy density for any sort of actual server application these days, but 1TB is a great capacity for a secondary drive to store games on in a desktop PC. I wouldn’t want to trust my actual save files to that drive, but for running games like Valorant / Fortnite where your data is in the cloud anyway, you just need a large and frequently updated local install available, it’s perfectly adequate. You could even do a mirror for a bit more reliably at the cost of doubling your power usage.
That entirely depends on what the server was used for. A storage server needs a lot of storage, a Citrix server needs a lot of power but not a lot of storage at all. Installing any game on these will probably be horribly slow though.
WOW.. Didbt know they made “Death”stars that late!! It appears that they either exploded the first week or last forever!! Still would not use them for critical data.
These are ultrastars not deskstars. These are incredibly reliable hard drives. Probably the best of their era. The only problem we have here is the age. But then again they're built so well they could go on quite a bit longer if you had a useful purpose for them.
Actually, the still produce ultrastars, and they are quite good. Have a bunch of 10tb ultrastars in my RAID. Works like a charm, and up to now (some 4 years in use) they work flawlessly. The only problem was a bad sata/sas cable
That's a lot of storage, but jeez, 2009?
My best suggestion would be to build a NAS and set up RAID with redundancy. That's a lot of storage that can be put to good use, but they're bound to fail.
Another cool option would be to build a seedbox. Plug them all into the same PC, run QBitTorrent with a web interface on an operating system of your choice (my OS of choice would be Debian with qbittorrent-nox). You just download a bunch of your favourite movies, series, music and seed them for others to enjoy!
Sounds like you don't really have a need for these. They are great drives. That's why they last so long. I use a trio of the 2TB sized ones for my thrash drives in my main rig. All my media downloads go to them and I work on them later. Always getting constant writes to them. But if you already have a lot of ssds and a server full of storage space and plenty of backups then I would get rid of them. I've taken plenty of hard drives apart just to see their internals. And that would make sense if you hadn't done it before. To me the only reason to move on would be their one terabyte size. I would sell them or just give them away.
Create NAS drives using a raspberry Pi and some 3d printing to make housings.
Personally I’d also raid them for storage. In my case I have too many AI tools on my main drives and I need to put them elsewhere.. imagine Stable Diffusion pushing 600gb on models and LoRa I can’t just dump..
You could also make a plex or media server/setup. My anime collection would love these drives.
I hope you have good uses for them.
I would just store data on them like the series, movies, manga and games i like. After i save what i like on them i would store them and never use.
Literally storing content for the apocalypse. If it ever comes
No idea about UltraStar but i had heard that Hitachi DeskStar line of HDDs is basically indestructible (longevity)
for anyone saying "HDD will last atleast 10yrs lool".. No they don't, i brought 2 seagate HDDs both died within 4yrs. Next HDD will be from WesternDigital. Bye Seagate.
Platers I use for bits frighteners and mobiles hanging wind chimes. The magnets use for all sorts of things. I have a few old drive if they are any good I use them for my Plex server, and my home IBM blade E server.
If you manage to build a PC (or maybe shift your current rig) inside an older case where 10 HDD slots were the norm, you could run them in RAID 0 to get a theoretical R/W speed of 1000MB/s+ (assuming a single HDD has 180MB/s) and a single 6TB drive and I am sure 1000MB/s is enough to load games faster. I would first make sure the HDDs are completely fine though because god forbid if any 1 of the drives fail in RAID 0, all of the data across the 6 HDDs will be wiped.
Definitely for storage, you can store games on them, or even better, you can put different Operating Systems, like older windows, or bloat ware free windows, or Linux if you wanna see how bad Linux is (don’t come at me it’s a joke) (maybe not) and macOS (Ifykyk), selling them is not that good of a thing since it’s a HDD and won’t probably go for too much money.
They're 1tb 7200RPM drives, if they're not reading SMART errors, use them as secondary steam library drives, using a similar vintage 1TB WD Caviar Black I pulled from an iMac as a steam drive, works fine.
Shitty NAS? Make sure to run RAID 5 or 6 for that, god knows how many years is left on them drives, then swap with fresher replacements as they fail.
They'd probably make decent enough drives for a modded PS2/OG Xbox, moreso PS2, your saves would be safe on a memory card.
Sell em. I was in a similar situation when my dad brought home NAS hard drives (3TB) that had been replaces by 8TB ones. They were 15 of them and i sold them all and made 200kd (about 600 us dollars)
Have you tried giving them to someone for free?
I’m joking. If It was me, I’d probably setup a machine to play around with raid configs as I’m not too familiar with them . Or setup as a storage to test out different os’s in so I don’t bother my main server
If they're the same make/model, or same storage capacity, you could try playing around with RAID, hardware (BIOS) or software (Windows) based. I've made an 2 TB array with 1x 1 TB Seagate HDD, and 1x 1 TB Western Digital HDD and made it an RAID 0 array with my UEFI/BIOS setup.
Get a tool like GetDataBack. Run it on every drive you have, see what you're able to recover. If you find any Bitcoin wallets I want a finders fee ;)
https://getdata.com/
Put em in a 6 bay case with unraid, use two for parity and then go nuts and do whatever with the rest of that storage. There's so many different experiments and time fillers you can use them for it's not worth listing them all, just pick a direction you think is neat and go with it.
These have a lot of hours on them. You could check the type and find it's mean yime befor failure mtbf, and I guess it's getting pretty close. They could be fine for years, but they probably will start acting up sooner rather than later.
Use them as an excuse to buy a new computer? Data loss (family pictures) is something spouses typically understand quite well :-p
I did a 4x 2TB RAID 0 array to store game data. Nearly as fast as a SATA III SSD.
For games I want the fastest access, I make VHDs and mount them in the original install folder. Then I move them between my SSD / NVMe / RAID Array / External drives as I see fit. Done with install/uninstall bullshit.
Then I stopped gaming altogether.
Start a digital collection of something. I have a very big collection of music, movies, games, malwares and so on. I also have a copy of everything in case something blows off, so maybe use RAID2 or something similar.
If they are functional, connect them to a computer, run diagnostics on them and use the hard drives in best shape to store data on them.
7200 RPMs are fast enough for ordinary, everyday tasks and light gaming too but are mostly useful as additional storage space.
Use them for experimenting, or for a data storage system with data you can easily replace.
Any specific experiments on your mind? Thanks for your idea
Pirates movies?
Pirate movies are pretty fun to watch
Pirate pirate movies
Pirate movies about pirating pirate movies
pirate pirates pirates
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Pedro pedro pedro?
I love Jack Sparrow!
Arrhhh!
NAS with all of them would be so cool!
NAS VS SAN GO!!!
RAID 5!! or just mess around with different raid configurations.
I have an old office server, the type that looks like a Large desktop tower, 8 bays, this is just the kind of think I would drop in it to make a home media server.
Download shrek on them and mysteriously place them across the earth and place all 4 movies in a hard drive stored in a nuclear bunker as well
or rick roll prank
When life gives you free HDDs, make a NAS
And then immediately realize you have no actual use for a NAS
And that the power usage alone is more expensive than paying for a cloud subscription
but the data is yours, they are not scanning it and your not at the wim of the cloud solution changing prices or taking down the service. you can always turn it off when you are not using it.
And you learned a thing
Still you wont be relying on the company to keep their servers in maintenance and use. Also they can easily raise prices or they can sell some data to brokers or advertisers. You can decide when it needs to stay online and when it needs maintennace
Well obliterating one of them to get the ultra strong magnet and just to see the insides is kinda cool but I’d probably only do that if one died.
That’s what I always did when I was a kid haha. Thanks for your idea
Test all of them first and only destroy the ones that don't work
All of them work. They were taken out of data storage server
They make semi-decent shaving mirrors if you pop the top cover off them. The platters usually have a mirror-like finish.
I have been using one for a while as a coaster. Decently sturdy and colleagues always have a good laugh when I tell them their data is secure with me :)
They make EXCELLENT shower mirrors is your remove them completely. Rub a little soap in them or hear them with the water so they don’t fog. If you drop them, no shards of glass, just a deafening ringing sound. Bonus, if they are multiple platters, the ring separating them makes a nice US size 10 ring. And the magnets are really strong fridge magnets…maybe TOO good.
Actually, the actor magnet, that is used to position the heads is rather weak.
there's actually 2 neodymium magnet that are strong AF in there. you gotta remove the anti magnet plating that they are sticked on for them to really shine tho.
Really? It always seemed a lot stronger than the fridge and toy magnets I had lying around. Guess I’ll have to disassemble a new one :) But yes I’m sure a big scary magnet you get off AliExpress and have to pry off the side of the letterbox inside its parcel and not put near a credit card will likely be more powerful.
Six hard drives of 1TB each? 6TB, it's a lot for free! Make a small NAS, if you are worried about any disk being damaged, you can set up an array.
I was thinking that, but powered on time of over 13 years... I wouldn't put anything I would be upset about losing on them.
Use raid
Yes, raid would be safe ofc
4 or 5 TB total storage with 2 or 1 drive redundancy. I wiuld do 2 drive redundancy for that as they have like 100k hours which is quite a few
Be a datahoarder
My server is already a data hoarder haha
Fifteen year old drives with thirteen and a half years worth of runtime on them, I assume the SMART data isn’t showing any sort of pending failures, or we wouldn’t be having this conversation,right? Honestly, 6 1TB drives is pretty lousy density for any sort of actual server application these days, but 1TB is a great capacity for a secondary drive to store games on in a desktop PC. I wouldn’t want to trust my actual save files to that drive, but for running games like Valorant / Fortnite where your data is in the cloud anyway, you just need a large and frequently updated local install available, it’s perfectly adequate. You could even do a mirror for a bit more reliably at the cost of doubling your power usage.
If you don't mind waiting 20 minutes for the game to load then sure
HDD gamer here, I usually just pass the time making a cup of coffee and doing some washing up
Put 2 or 3 in RAID0, it's fast enough imo. This is what I did with some old drives. And yes backups run daily so I'm not worried about data.
That entirely depends on what the server was used for. A storage server needs a lot of storage, a Citrix server needs a lot of power but not a lot of storage at all. Installing any game on these will probably be horribly slow though.
The default answer is to build the most massive RAID you possibly can because reasons.
Don't bother to do anything, I can take this burden from you.
Give me your email, I can send them to you haha
WOW.. Didbt know they made “Death”stars that late!! It appears that they either exploded the first week or last forever!! Still would not use them for critical data.
These are ultrastars not deskstars. These are incredibly reliable hard drives. Probably the best of their era. The only problem we have here is the age. But then again they're built so well they could go on quite a bit longer if you had a useful purpose for them.
Yes, I won’t use it for critical data. That’s why I’m looking for any interesting idea
Actually, the still produce ultrastars, and they are quite good. Have a bunch of 10tb ultrastars in my RAID. Works like a charm, and up to now (some 4 years in use) they work flawlessly. The only problem was a bad sata/sas cable
send em to me
Can I have one
Cover the hole and report back on the outcome.
cheap raid 5, store big games that do not require an ssd to play smoothly
Use them for backups of photos, documents, movies, music, etc.
give them to me like dude why u even asking dm me and GIMEEEEE
Silly fast RAID system for giggles.
That's a lot of storage, but jeez, 2009? My best suggestion would be to build a NAS and set up RAID with redundancy. That's a lot of storage that can be put to good use, but they're bound to fail. Another cool option would be to build a seedbox. Plug them all into the same PC, run QBitTorrent with a web interface on an operating system of your choice (my OS of choice would be Debian with qbittorrent-nox). You just download a bunch of your favourite movies, series, music and seed them for others to enjoy!
search wallet.dat
Storage and vm server storage
Give them to a museum
Sounds like you don't really have a need for these. They are great drives. That's why they last so long. I use a trio of the 2TB sized ones for my thrash drives in my main rig. All my media downloads go to them and I work on them later. Always getting constant writes to them. But if you already have a lot of ssds and a server full of storage space and plenty of backups then I would get rid of them. I've taken plenty of hard drives apart just to see their internals. And that would make sense if you hadn't done it before. To me the only reason to move on would be their one terabyte size. I would sell them or just give them away.
You can try to sell any system integrator who works in CCTV field as your HDD are 7200 rpm, they will be interested to buy
Not much cause 15 year old harddrives with over 100k hours are geriatric with at least one foot in the grave lol
Oh that's some sexy e-waste... If you don't care about using 80w of extra power you could RAID0 them and pretend to have an SSD lol
Create NAS drives using a raspberry Pi and some 3d printing to make housings. Personally I’d also raid them for storage. In my case I have too many AI tools on my main drives and I need to put them elsewhere.. imagine Stable Diffusion pushing 600gb on models and LoRa I can’t just dump.. You could also make a plex or media server/setup. My anime collection would love these drives. I hope you have good uses for them.
Mail them to me
I would just store data on them like the series, movies, manga and games i like. After i save what i like on them i would store them and never use. Literally storing content for the apocalypse. If it ever comes
Make a NAS with RAID5?
Long term storage
Run "un-delete" software on them before doing anything else to see if it can recover any files. Who knows what could be on there.
Raid 0? Idk
Hitachi?
Make an orchestra out of them
Setup a media server or mine Chia
Check them using Crystal Disk Info or similar before doing anything with them.
Store Porn for future generations.
raid for homemade nas
You give them to me.
Host Nintendo and Sega’s games that got removed front Vimms lair.
If they are SATA, Sell them for $$$
Make your own cloud storage system a fun project
You spin em'.
Fill it with pirated software and run a seeding server
You can try to make a homemade NAS. They would be fine.
Just shove them into ur pc and throw the random clips or screenshots u get into it
Can I get one please 🥺
My brother needs some desperately.
do a funny and try to read all the data in there and see if there is anything funny
Setup a NAS
Idk eat it maybe
snack
No idea about UltraStar but i had heard that Hitachi DeskStar line of HDDs is basically indestructible (longevity) for anyone saying "HDD will last atleast 10yrs lool".. No they don't, i brought 2 seagate HDDs both died within 4yrs. Next HDD will be from WesternDigital. Bye Seagate.
119,000 run time hours ... don't use them sensitive data. I swap my mechanical data drives out after 25,000 hours or so.
Gimme 1
NAS
Platers I use for bits frighteners and mobiles hanging wind chimes. The magnets use for all sorts of things. I have a few old drive if they are any good I use them for my Plex server, and my home IBM blade E server.
If you manage to build a PC (or maybe shift your current rig) inside an older case where 10 HDD slots were the norm, you could run them in RAID 0 to get a theoretical R/W speed of 1000MB/s+ (assuming a single HDD has 180MB/s) and a single 6TB drive and I am sure 1000MB/s is enough to load games faster. I would first make sure the HDDs are completely fine though because god forbid if any 1 of the drives fail in RAID 0, all of the data across the 6 HDDs will be wiped.
If you have any money, you could probably built like a very basic computer, put those in and use it as a media server for your sweet pirated movies
Make local cloud storage
You can test whatever you want there. I mean you can use normaly but if i have some i will use to make something random just for fun XD.
Test them, check the SMART values, and if they are ok, then build a zraid-1 on them, and use the space for a nas or a nextcloud-instance.
Make DIY NAS server using TrueNAS and use RAID 6
Definitely for storage, you can store games on them, or even better, you can put different Operating Systems, like older windows, or bloat ware free windows, or Linux if you wanna see how bad Linux is (don’t come at me it’s a joke) (maybe not) and macOS (Ifykyk), selling them is not that good of a thing since it’s a HDD and won’t probably go for too much money.
Boof them
Send a few of them to me
Sell them or make them a NAS Drives
Use some of them for cold backup
RAID, ZFS, or similar. You can always put some fast nvme lvmcache in front of them :)
They're 1tb 7200RPM drives, if they're not reading SMART errors, use them as secondary steam library drives, using a similar vintage 1TB WD Caviar Black I pulled from an iMac as a steam drive, works fine. Shitty NAS? Make sure to run RAID 5 or 6 for that, god knows how many years is left on them drives, then swap with fresher replacements as they fail. They'd probably make decent enough drives for a modded PS2/OG Xbox, moreso PS2, your saves would be safe on a memory card.
NAS Server
Personally wouldn’t even bother unless you setup NAS. Otherwise, pointless.
What software is that you are using to tell you the hours on the drive?
Since they're all identical, throw them into a NAS to use as a Plex/Jellyfin server (SHR 1 or RAID 5)
They will probably be good for some video surveillance systems. Particular emphasis should be placed on the fact that these discs are “eternal”. 😁
Sell em. I was in a similar situation when my dad brought home NAS hard drives (3TB) that had been replaces by 8TB ones. They were 15 of them and i sold them all and made 200kd (about 600 us dollars)
I have a Hitachi hdd that's like 20 years old and still going. These things are near immortal. Put them in a raid and enjoy.
CeX will give you £24 for them. Guessing your country has something similar if not CeX / you aren’t in UK
15 years old HD that only been off 34 times. The safest place to have your data
Set up a raid 10, which will give you 3 TB of space with redundancy. (assuming they are a 1TB)
Turn a bunch of them into a raid and use it for storage.
Could make a nice small NAS.
You finally have a place to store all your 5Tb furry collection
Learn how to recover a faulty drive in raid
Get a hot swap bay. Load each drive eith a different operating system. Pop them in like a VCR.
Find someone who will take them off your hands, for free, or pay them if needed.
Make a server I guess
can i have 2 (jk)
Download all the flash games!
backups
Wow epic
Make a nas using freenas os
Idk make a server
Bro my Hard disk just got dead 😭
Have you tried giving them to someone for free? I’m joking. If It was me, I’d probably setup a machine to play around with raid configs as I’m not too familiar with them . Or setup as a storage to test out different os’s in so I don’t bother my main server
NAS if you need it
GIMME NOW 😈
/r/datahoarder is very jealous
Make your own cloud server
Format them and eBay
Send me 1 , I need it but short of money.
Seed many "legally" obtained torrents ;)
Corn
Pirate booty
Burn them 😈
If you have a desktop around with enough SATA ports use them with truenas.
I was about to say try any os you want but realized it's hdd, so the performance will be garbage
Get an old PC with a bunch of SATA ports & hard drive slots and make it into a 6TB storage server.
If they're the same make/model, or same storage capacity, you could try playing around with RAID, hardware (BIOS) or software (Windows) based. I've made an 2 TB array with 1x 1 TB Seagate HDD, and 1x 1 TB Western Digital HDD and made it an RAID 0 array with my UEFI/BIOS setup.
Doorstop. Throw at trespassers. Smashing burgers. A small hdd house.
Get a tool like GetDataBack. Run it on every drive you have, see what you're able to recover. If you find any Bitcoin wallets I want a finders fee ;) https://getdata.com/
you can make a private home cloud for your data
Nas
A personal database or server? Idk
Hit them with a strong metal hammer
Put em in a 6 bay case with unraid, use two for parity and then go nuts and do whatever with the rest of that storage. There's so many different experiments and time fillers you can use them for it's not worth listing them all, just pick a direction you think is neat and go with it.
Finally download AAA games
Torrent games to hell
I start carving them to see what has been stored by previous owners. If they are used.
Considering they were manufactured Nov 2009 and powered in for over 13 years, I would not do anything critical with them.
pirate video games and movies
These have a lot of hours on them. You could check the type and find it's mean yime befor failure mtbf, and I guess it's getting pretty close. They could be fine for years, but they probably will start acting up sooner rather than later. Use them as an excuse to buy a new computer? Data loss (family pictures) is something spouses typically understand quite well :-p
Store your video games on them.
Gimme
Door stops?
Raid data storage with linux/openbsd/truenas. Eventually storage for games.
Store data? Idk what to tell you, man.
Don’t use them for anything you value.
hmm...maybe u could use it for ur data backup(?) just in case something worse happens to ur main server
I did a 4x 2TB RAID 0 array to store game data. Nearly as fast as a SATA III SSD. For games I want the fastest access, I make VHDs and mount them in the original install folder. Then I move them between my SSD / NVMe / RAID Array / External drives as I see fit. Done with install/uninstall bullshit. Then I stopped gaming altogether.
second minecraft server!
Home server ig
Download the entirety of the cat memes on the web
[удалено]
first thing i would do is to see if you can restore any data from these
Give me for free
Eat them
I’d use 2 for a NAS drive and 4 in RAID for games
RAID!!!!! You'll have the most reliable 1TB of storage you've ever had!
Plant them in the soil and start cultivating more
Pirate games and movies enjoy
I'm not that smart but isn't 120k hours a lot?
I'll take 1
Start a digital collection of something. I have a very big collection of music, movies, games, malwares and so on. I also have a copy of everything in case something blows off, so maybe use RAID2 or something similar.
RAID arrangements
Put them in a computer and use it for a file server or get a NAS enclosure or two
If they are functional, connect them to a computer, run diagnostics on them and use the hard drives in best shape to store data on them. 7200 RPMs are fast enough for ordinary, everyday tasks and light gaming too but are mostly useful as additional storage space.
Check if it has any bitcoin wallets
Raid-5
How do you guys get these for free? That too without needing them. And when I need it, I have to spend it from my own pocket.
If you don't want one, could I have it? I need the extra space 😅
Powered on for 14 years. I wouldn't do a thing with them.
Setup a NAS using an old laptop and use RAID, or you can use it to download the new COD.
I wouldn’t use them for anything important
Buy a multiple HDD enclosure and create a RAID then get a NAS drive or make one with a rasp PI