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07-18-2019, 03:31 PM #1
What to do with old external HardDrives?
I have three, older, USB analog external drives I used for backup and storage. I now have more SSD storage than I need on two thunderbolt externals which back up and transfer files much faster.
What to do with the old ones? Can I daisy chain them and create a Sonos server connected to my xfinity modem/router? Am I smart enough to do this? Anything else clever I can do with them? They were decent ones in their day but not so much anymore.
WWMD?
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07-20-2019, 05:41 PM #2
Old hard drives are good for non-critical data that pretty much just needs to be read. You get a lot more read cycles than write cycles on HDs generally.
Almost every router can take a hard drive to make it accessible via your wifi, so a media server is a good plan. I don't think you could realistically just daisy chain a bunch together in that setup though, because I think you'd need some software to do it.
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07-21-2019, 02:09 PM #3
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07-21-2019, 09:26 PM #4
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