small hard drives - who might ned them

[didds]

Over the years Ive collected quite literally a shed load of old IT kit.

Its time to get rid of it all as its preventing the perfectly good use of a man shed.

amongst the kit are a bunch of hard drives. the larger ones 160 GB+ I can probably sell on ebay (yes, usual caveats about blatting old photos of auntie bessie and the receipts for meals from 20 years ago etc via DDOS HDblatters etc) for a few quid to cover a couple of pints.

But I also have a bunch of drives that arent totally useless but not big by today's standards. 40Gb-80Gb. A quick shufti on ebay shows these might garner £2 which after the flap of packing and posting etc just sin;t woth the candle so its probably a sledge hammer battering and off to the skip with them.

unless... DAK of anything/body that wold have a genuine use for them (yes, usual caveats about blatting old photos of auntie bessie and the receipts for meals from 20 years ago etc via DDOS HDblatters etc)) ? Id be quite open that I CBA to do anything more than blatt them... the recipients would need to come and collect them basically but... in the interests of reduce, reuse recycle ...

DAK?

didds

[UncleEbenezer]

Put up a notice: newsagents window sorta thing?

Somewhere like a school might attract the eyes of folks keen for gear but cash-poor. Ditto if you have anywhere that hosts shoestring-level small biz.

[Slarti]

Discovered this, this morning http://www.weeecharity.co.uk/

They would probably be interested.

Slarti

[stevensfo]

Just give them to a church jumble sale or charity.

Hint: Use a fine marker pen to write 'Hard porn' on the side of each one. They'll sell like hot cakes.

Steve

[Garless]

Over the years Ive collected quite literally a shed load of old IT kit.

Its time to get rid of it all as its preventing the perfectly good use of a man shed.

amongst the kit are a bunch of hard drives. the larger ones 160 GB+ I can probably sell on ebay (yes, usual caveats about blatting old photos of auntie bessie and the receipts for meals from 20 years ago etc via DDOS HDblatters etc) for a few quid to cover a couple of pints.

But I also have a bunch of drives that arent totally useless but not big by today's standards. 40Gb-80Gb. A quick shufti on ebay shows these might garner £2 which after the flap of packing and posting etc just sin;t woth the candle so its probably a sledge hammer battering and off to the skip with them.

unless... DAK of anything/body that wold have a genuine use for them (yes, usual caveats about blatting old photos of auntie bessie and the receipts for meals from 20 years ago etc via DDOS HDblatters etc)) ? Id be quite open that I CBA to do anything more than blatt them... the recipients would need to come and collect them basically but... in the interests of reduce, reuse recycle ...

DAK?

didds

I have similar disks put into caddies to back up selected folders, family history on one, photos on another. Perhaps better than a large full backup disk as I can select what I need to restore after finger trouble!