All old hard drives are worth nothing, unless you really need some extra storage and don't care if its lost from a bad drive.

VIA is being squeezed out of all the markets by ARM on one side and the new low power Atom on the other. From the bottom to the top they now have competition.

Windows 8 will seal it. Expect them to be bought out by either Nvidia or AMD.

Buster  Wrote:

All old hard drives are worth nothing, unless you really need some extra storage and don't care if its lost from a bad drive.

VIA is being squeezed out of all the markets by ARM on one side and the new low power Atom on the other. From the bottom to the top they now have competition.

Windows 8 will seal it. Expect them to be bought out by either Nvidia or AMD.

THX!

That's what I thought, and I couldn't find anything online to indicate otherwise.

Unless you like to play with motors.

Which I do, but it's not worth tearing this thing open.

Luvapottamus  Wrote:

Buster  Wrote:

All old hard drives are worth nothing, unless you really need some extra storage and don't care if its lost from a bad drive.

VIA is being squeezed out of all the markets by ARM on one side and the new low power Atom on the other. From the bottom to the top they now have competition.

Windows 8 will seal it. Expect them to be bought out by either Nvidia or AMD.

THX!

That's what I thought, and I couldn't find anything online to indicate otherwise.

Unless you like to play with motors.

Which I do, but it's not worth tearing this thing open.

How old are the drives? If you've got like a 10G or up you might be able to sell the controller card on eBay to somebody looking to revive a dead hard drive. Just google the model number and see if anybody is trading in the thing. Even if its a recycler they might buy it from you for a few bucks.

Ghenghy  Wrote:

Luvapottamus  Wrote:

THX!

That's what I thought, and I couldn't find anything online to indicate otherwise.

Unless you like to play with motors.

Which I do, but it's not worth tearing this thing open.

How old are the drives? If you've got like a 10G or up you might be able to sell the controller card on eBay to somebody looking to revive a dead hard drive. Just google the model number and see if anybody is trading in the thing. Even if its a recycler they might buy it from you for a few bucks.

This thing has to be way less than a gig.



I have file cabinet drawers full of hard disks I was just wondering if there was precious metal content or something.

Somebody may want the whole box for their museum or something. It's too bad the guy I bought it from lopped off the monitor with a sawzall, because it still worked before he did that.

I just wanted the cart.

Luvapottamus  Wrote:

Ghenghy  Wrote:

How old are the drives? If you've got like a 10G or up you might be able to sell the controller card on eBay to somebody looking to revive a dead hard drive. Just google the model number and see if anybody is trading in the thing. Even if its a recycler they might buy it from you for a few bucks.

This thing has to be way less than a gig.



I have file cabinet drawers full of hard disks I was just wondering if there was precious metal content or something.

Somebody may want the whole box for their museum or something. It's too bad the guy I bought it from lopped off the monitor with a sawzall, because it still worked before he did that.

I just wanted the cart.

http://www.craigslist.kazakhstan.com

Ghenghy  Wrote:

Luvapottamus  Wrote:

This thing has to be way less than a gig.



I have file cabinet drawers full of hard disks I was just wondering if there was precious metal content or something.

Somebody may want the whole box for their museum or something. It's too bad the guy I bought it from lopped off the monitor with a sawzall, because it still worked before he did that.

I just wanted the cart.

http://www.craigslist.kazakhstan.com

I could use this thing as an ignition scope. Too bad it doesn't have an exhaust probe,
but I just wanted the cart for a garage PC, you know for music and streaming audio.
It has a nice cabinet with heavy duty casters.

Never got around to stuffing it with a machine(yet). But it was A BLEEDING EDGE OBD test system at one time.

Ghenghy  Wrote:

Luvapottamus  Wrote:

I could use this thing as an ignition scope. Too bad it doesn't have an exhaust probe,
but I just wanted the cart for a garage PC, you know for music and streaming audio.
It has a nice cabinet with heavy duty casters.

Never got around to stuffing it with a machine(yet). But it was A BLEEDING EDGE OBD test system at one time.

I had a collection of old IDE drives that I was hanging onto for some reason or other, then I hooked em up one by one to see what I'd left on there.... funny funny funnnnneeeeeeee! All those old Eudora emails.

I recently grabbed all my 3.5's/5.25's and backed them up to my storage drives. What i found is that i used to like some freaky shit!