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    Ideas for using 2.5 HDDs

    I need a strategy on what to do with some old 2.5 HDDs 5400rpm. The hard drives are in perfect condition and their size varies between 120/160/250GB/320GB.
    They are way to slow to make a bootable recovery disk out of them. I was thinking of using them for back but I cannot think of what to put on them. The only thing worth saving are credentials, personal data and browser settings and bookmarks but these are at most 500MB. Seems like a waste to use them only for this.
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    I'd use them for music backup!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Master Razor View Post
    They are way to slow to make a bootable recovery disk out of them.
    With a USB 3.0 enclosure, they should be pretty fast. Remember that in comparison to that external SSD of yours, everything else will pale

    Long-term backup/archiving is also a good idea.
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    Give them to a charity.
    they are some that collect old IT equipment for the poor or in poor countries

    I have a bunch of old 1-TB 3.5" that I only use to back some old full bluray in case someone ask for a reseed.
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    Used them for storage after all.
    That USB stick of mine is already full with only support tools. I was thinking of buying a 512GB SSD, unmount the case, and the insides with a SATA to USB cable on it and make it portable.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Master Razor View Post
    I was thinking of buying a 512GB SSD, unmount the case, and the insides with a SATA to USB cable on it and make it portable.
    Unmount the case and the insides? What kind of SSD are you going to buy?
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    I hope he meant to buy a SSD with external USB enclosure. Else....

    some of these external USB use special disk with special connector (WD used to do that) so the disk or the usb enclose are pretty useless independently.
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    I need SSD usb sticks. The one I have has only 30GB left on it from 256.
    Think of it this way, the microsoft way: in order for me to build a 200MB winpe disk, I require a 8GB portable folder filled with WAIK/ADK.

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    Quote Originally Posted by molosse View Post
    some of these external USB use special disk with special connector (WD used to do that) so the disk or the usb enclose are pretty useless independently.
    Seen those too. To top it off, the smaller connector on the disk's side is proprietary (slightly wider than a regular micro-USB). If the bridge dies, the entire disk becomes useless and attempting any data recovery on your own is impossible.

    I don't know what advantages a direct USB interface has over SATA + USB bridge, but it doesn't seem they're worth it.
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    I somehow missed that post. That's bad news.
    So, not only will I lose the waranty but I might also get one of those proprietary connectors which would make it entirely useless.
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