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What to do with Old Laptop and HDDS?

Shakeeb Aftab
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I have 1 old laptop and 2-3 2tb hdds laying around and i have nothing to do with them.

 

Any ideas what to do?

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1 minute ago, Shakeeb Aftab said:

I have 1 old laptop and 2-3 2tb hdds laying around and i have nothing to do with them.

 

Any ideas what to do?

 

SATA HDDs I'm assuming. Put them in a PC. sell em. If you have NO use, take em apart.... play with rare earth magnets, pinch fingertips; profit

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[HDD]- 1Tb Seagate Barracuda

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how old is that laptop?  It could be used as an HTPC, and if you throw the drives in external enclosures, you could store movies and stuff

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what's the laptop and for the hard drives you could make a home storage pc if you have a desktop you aren't using to store photos and important info to have a backup

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Just now, Shakeeb Aftab said:

@poker1059 I am not in mood of selling, any better advice? :P:P

Give them to someone who would benefit

Make a YouTube video of them being destroyed 

Donate to a computer store 

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[CPU] - Intel Core i5-4590  

[Motherboard] - MSI B85-G43 GAMING 

[RAM] - Kingston HyperX Beast (2x4GB) 1866Mhz... CPU only supports 1600Mhz

[SSD] - A-Data SP600 128GB SSD

[HDD]- 1Tb Seagate Barracuda

[GPU] - EVGA GTX 1060 6GB SSC

[Case] - Corsair SPEC-03 White 

[PSU] - Rosewill 450W 80+Bronze

 
 
 
 
 

 

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4 minutes ago, poker1059 said:

Give them to someone who would benefit

Make a YouTube video of them being destroyed 

Donate to a computer store 

Isn't that Linus's job? xD

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Get some SATA to usb adapters, hook it up to the laptop and use the laptop as a media server

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Uhh I'm running out of storage, if you wanna hook someone up? :P but actually, they could be useful for backups for other machines, or you could use the laptop with some kind of HDD enclosure as a NAS?

Laptop: Asus GA502DU

RAM: 16GB DDR4 | CPU: Ryzen 3750H | GPU: GTX 1660ti

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2 minutes ago, Shakeeb Aftab said:

@Ryan_Vickers Gateway NV57h really old specs :P.

I don't think that's as old as you think... if it's at least a Sandy Bridge i3 (~2011 or newer) it should be just fine 

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1 minute ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

I don't think that's as old as you think... if it's at least a Sandy Bridge i3 (~2011 or newer) it should be just fine 

Core 2 duo, still love it :P

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Core 2 duo, still love it :P

 

Hackintosh it

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[CPU] - Intel Core i5-4590  

[Motherboard] - MSI B85-G43 GAMING 

[RAM] - Kingston HyperX Beast (2x4GB) 1866Mhz... CPU only supports 1600Mhz

[SSD] - A-Data SP600 128GB SSD

[HDD]- 1Tb Seagate Barracuda

[GPU] - EVGA GTX 1060 6GB SSC

[Case] - Corsair SPEC-03 White 

[PSU] - Rosewill 450W 80+Bronze

 
 
 
 
 

 

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Hackintosh it

I tried 50 times and I failed 50 times, problem is I don't have a mac to make a bootable and don't wanna invest in apple shit either.... :P

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3 minutes ago, Shakeeb Aftab said:

 

Core 2 duo, still love it :P

Ah, well, probably too old then... maybe.

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I tried 50 times and I failed 50 times, problem is I don't have a mac to make a bootable and don't wanna invest in apple shit either.... :P

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1 minute ago, Shakeeb Aftab said:

I tried 50 times and I failed 50 times, problem is I don't have a mac to make a bootable and don't wanna invest in apple shit either.... :P

rip

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[CPU] - Intel Core i5-4590  

[Motherboard] - MSI B85-G43 GAMING 

[RAM] - Kingston HyperX Beast (2x4GB) 1866Mhz... CPU only supports 1600Mhz

[SSD] - A-Data SP600 128GB SSD

[HDD]- 1Tb Seagate Barracuda

[GPU] - EVGA GTX 1060 6GB SSC

[Case] - Corsair SPEC-03 White 

[PSU] - Rosewill 450W 80+Bronze

 
 
 
 
 

 

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I know im a bit late but turn it into a speaker... it is possible :D 

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Install Lubuntu on it and play around with linux for the laptop, and if you have a desktop and enough sata ports you could create a raid array (or some other data pool like zfs) 

 

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take the magnets out and stick them to some spinning hard drive and see if the drives still works.

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