I'm finally upgrading to a 1 TB SSD and i'm not sure what to do with the ol' HDD. some say they convert theirs into an external drive which sounds easy enough, but are there other potential projects?
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If it's a piece of junk, you can always rip it apart and pull out the magnets and use the rest for target practice.
If it's a nice drive keep it in your computer for Media Storage / Game Storage.
Buy a small board computer (RPi or something similar) and turn it into a NAS on your local network.
Use it as a backup drive for your main drive/documents.