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Random question, how do you guys store your spare PC components. I have a small handful just kind of sitting in electrostatic bags in a cardboard box but I feel like someones got a great solution out there. Only asking now because I'm upgrading my nvme from an old 500gb one salvaged from a laptop to a 2tb and realised I should store my old stuff a bit better.

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Thrown on a bookshelf in my work room.  Literal piles of graphics cards, sound cards, ram sticks, etc.  

 

You really don't need to handle these things with that much care in my experience.

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6 minutes ago, TOSaunders said:

Random question, how do you guys store your spare PC components. I have a small handful just kind of sitting in electrostatic bags in a cardboard box but I feel like someones got a great solution out there. Only asking now because I'm upgrading my nvme from an old 500gb one salvaged from a laptop to a 2tb and realised I should store my old stuff a bit better.

Closet so I can't store my dresses as well anymore. Under my bed. In my drawers. I have a lot of stuff and I just shove it anywhere it'll fit.

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Back in the original boxes/packaging thrown in the empty case box sitting in the corner of my room...with overflow stacked up on top. 

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Mine in are stored in plastic bins. They are in the original box if I still have it. If not they are just pilled in

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Back in their boxes in a cupboard in the garage 

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Everywhere and anywhere. Whole corner of my basement is dedicated to the stuff.

 

It's on a table. It's on a bookshelf. It's in a box. A bin. I have stuff that's been sitting in piles for more than a decade and I'm testing it now and it all still works fine.

 

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Most of mine are just sitting on shelves. Some in antistatic bags, some not. Some are in their respective boxes (old mobo/cpu) mostly. As long as they're not all tumbled together in a box with no protection there's really no problem imo

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I have a case to hold NVME drives.  That is about the only thing I collect.  Maybe a few items I haven't had time to install/sell yet in boxes.  If it is worth something I sell it right away.  If I can't sell it, it eventually goes to a recycle pile at work.

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I just keep mine loose in a couple cardboard boxes. Cards I like get anti-static bags.

 

Maybe someday I'll sort through the multiple boxes of old hard drives I've got kicking around. Nobody needs 20 gig PATA drives anymore.

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