[rescue] Old sci and ide drives

[Joshua D. Boyd]

Oh yeah, I also have some 71q or e250 era hard drive rails that are more than I think I'll ever need at this point, if anyone needs a few of those I'd be happy to supply them.

On March 13, 2023 1:32:05 AM EDT, "Joshua D. Boyd via rescue" <rescue at sunhelp.org> wrote:
>I'm starting on some reorganizing, and hopefully some reduction to make room for new items coming into my house. And something that is bugging me is this massive stockpile of old hard drives. I have IDE hard drives, sata hard drives, narrow scsi drives, wide scsi up to ultra 320, and some SAS. 
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>I'm trying to determine what I really want to keep. For instance, I can't think of any place where a small SATA HDD can't be replaced by a small SATA SSD in the future. Likewise I have to wonder if small IDE hard drives can always be replaced by small IDE to SATA SSD bridges, or IDE to CF bridges or IDE to SD cards bridges. I can't think of any instances of hearing about that not working. In the case of scuzzy, it seems there are so many scsi to SD adapter so that I'm wondering if there's any point in personally keeping narrow scsi devices anymore.
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>I can't say that I've seen much of wide scsi at any speed to SD or SATA easily available, so there's perhaps more reason to keep some of those drives. If I only kept the ultra 320s though, would I be likely to run into compatibility problems if I needed to put one in a ultra wide or even just fast wide machine?
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>For what I do decide to get rid of, is there people who would want them for the price of packaging and shipping, or should they just be recycled? I suspect people will chime in for the former.
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>Also does anyone need anything in particular as long as I'm searching through this stuff?
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