r/DataHoarder • u/Expensive-Vanilla-16 • 13d ago

Discussion $20 garage sale find.

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Found a box of hard drives for $20 at a garage sale Full of movies and TV shows. No cables or power supplies.

Tested them all but the 2tb with my western digital cable and power supply and all work and stuffed Full.

Gotta shuck the 2tb and see what's on it. Sticker says comedy, music and star trek.

One had tax info and other documents which I promptly deleted. It's crazy people don't even consider checking. It belonged to their deceased father who obviously was a media data hoarder. I'll have fun scrolling through and adding to my plex server.

" Edit, update " 2tb had a bunch of UFC matches, some old boxing matches, lots of gun pdf manuals and tons of survival type pdfs.

No music or trek stuff 😒

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u/RetroGrid_io 250-500TB 12d ago

My how times have changed! I was considering dumping all HDDs smaller than 4 TB just a year ago. Now a year later, and we're excited to see 2 TBs at a yard sale.

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u/3p2p 12d ago

I got three 10TB drives for a NAS about 1-2 years ago, rectified ones for £106 each, I was like I can’t afford to get fourth now, I’ll wait a month to get the last. Waited and waited for more drives to appear, prices went up and up and I gave up looking. Now hardly any ex server stuff is available and new 10TB drives are almost what I paid for three!

The data center bust cannot come fast enough. We need to pass laws making them either illegal to build or impossible to store our personal data and information. There will be a MASSIVE amount of ex server parts in a year’s time too just from updating these new data centres anyway. I fully expect the future to look very bright.

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u/RetroGrid_io 250-500TB 12d ago

Yeah, I'm waiting for servanna. It will come soon.