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[ddyke]

I occasionally get servers from my geek friends. The latest one had 4 500 gig drives and 2 300 gig drives. The first four were SATA and were good. The other two were serial SCSI (SAS). He is giving me 50 more of the SAS drives and so I have to get a controller card for them. There are five more servers to tear down but he thinks they were basically stripped. I hope not.

[2FER SLOTS]

What do you do with them......I hate to throw anything away.

[ddyke]

I cloned my main computer's C drive to one, the data drive on to another, and my laptop will go on to the third. The fourth is going as a data drive to the laptop. The 50 plus 2 SCSI drives are another question. This means I have to wipe them if I give them away and that is a task.

[ddyke]

The sad thing is what I scrap - any drive under 250 gig gets scrapped. Ram chips under 1 gig are gone as are single core processor machines. I got some tooling and traded it for work on the house. A person threw away a perfectly working sawsall, a plunge router, and a 12" compound miter saw. The miter saw has a bend in the table that keeps it from cutting straight. I use it to cut up firewood. I have five flat panel monitors for when our club members need timing systems. Crazy world! Everything is disposable including family. Slot cars are a great way to connect with people. Last summer I saw one of my former students. She was with a little boy. I thought, "She has never been pregnant." She as a single woman adopted a little boy with physical problems. The parents didn't want to deal with it so they gave him up for adoption. I keep telling my son that she is the girl for him. She won't throw him away.