Comments on: Here’s Why You Should Keep Your Old Hard Drives http://greentechgirl.com/e-waste/heres-why-you-should-keep-your-old-hard-drives/ Fri, 10 Jun 2011 22:31:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 By: dbrion http://greentechgirl.com/e-waste/heres-why-you-should-keep-your-old-hard-drives/comment-page-1/#comment-69 dbrion Tue, 24 Jun 2008 08:58:23 +0000 http://greentechgirl.com/e-waste/heres-why-you-should-keep-your-old-hard-drives/#comment-69 Did not you think of USB adapters (ATA /Sata-> USB) for testing your old HD and data rescuing? (not for HD replacement) Some are very nice, some are universal (5"5, 3"5,ata+sata). They are reasonably cheap (15E$~ca 18$ as there are less taxes) and one can even make them by oneself if one has a broken WDPassport (if the HD is broken, the adapter can be used). This way, I have a dualboot laptop with #80 G inside and 1To on the USB, wih many cheap disks (and, if one breaks, it is redundant enough). And I often use them to put *isos to VMplay/qemulate linuxen/bsd (VMplaye, qemu and VirtualBOx are Windows ported) to train myself know which linux/BSDs I can choose if my laptop dies... Did not you think of USB adapters (ATA /Sata-> USB) for testing your old HD and data rescuing? (not for HD replacement)
Some are very nice, some are universal (5″5, 3″5,ata+sata).

They are reasonably cheap (15E$~ca 18$ as there are less taxes) and one can even make them by oneself if one has a broken WDPassport (if the HD is broken, the adapter can be used). This way, I have a dualboot laptop with #80 G inside and 1To on the USB, wih many cheap disks (and, if one breaks, it is redundant enough).

And I often use them to put *isos to VMplay/qemulate linuxen/bsd (VMplaye, qemu and VirtualBOx are Windows ported) to train myself know which linux/BSDs I can choose if my laptop dies…

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