Is there an old hard drive sitting in your drawer collecting dust? It doesn't have to. I've found some cool, creative ways to ...

So, you pick up a new hard drive and slot it into your computer and now you're left with the old one sitting on your desk. It has served its purpose and now it is fated for a drawer or the ...

Click to viewSo you finally replaced that overstuffed 80GB hard drive with a half-terabyte data warehouse. The question is, what do you do with the old drive? Stick it on a shelf? Toss it in the ...

If you still have an old hard drive that you want to replace with a faster, lighter, and more compact SSD, there is a good chance you might want to get rid of the older one too. But getting rid of ...

You can just toss that old hard drive in a drawer, which is the cheapest way to be sure nobody will access it, but if you’d just like to be rid of it, I’d recommend destroying it. (Jim Rossman ...

My hard drive is over ten and a half months old, slightly different from the 8.3 months I calculated. So, this method only gives an estimate which may differ from the actual age. If you've never ...

It all started with a faint clicking. Maria, a photographer from the Finger Lakes region of New York, didn’t think much of it at first. Her old external hard drive had been around for years-quietly ...

As we replace and/or upgrade older computers, many of us tend to save the hard drives, until we’ve amassed quite a collection. For example, I’ve collected quite a few 2.5-in. and 3.5-in.

So you’ve just taken apart a hard drive, and you’re looking at all the pieces on your desktop. You’re somehow compelled to use them all in different projects. Why not pull out that very high ...

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Many of you are just as eager to find out how to make some of your data disappear entirely, whether it is splashed across social media or locked up in old hard drives sitting around the house.

An old hard drive will only fetch a fraction of its purchase price if you try to sell it, but it still can have some value to you if you keep it around. According to a Google study on hard drive ...