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What do y'all do with your old hard drives? (sopuli.xyz)
submitted 1 year ago by brihuang95@sopuli.xyz to c/pcmasterrace@lemmy.world
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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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[-] eppic@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

HDDs have fairly large neodymium magnets in them.

[-] Secret300@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

huh didn't know that, neat

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