SF Bay Furs

22 February 2026 20:09

Ya there are some brackets for that

SF Bay Furs

22 February 2026 19:43

I think there are laptop drive to standard case adapters?

SF Bay Furs

22 February 2026 19:38

I’m wondering if there's a way to salvage the HDD off of my old laptop and repurpose it for my desktop.

SF Bay Furs

22 February 2026 19:18

my old manager decided to change two drives during a RAID rebuild once

SF Bay Furs

22 February 2026 19:17

Ya it's for backup anyway

SF Bay Furs

22 February 2026 19:16

They're certified and warranty. So far no issues. I have some 8tb refurbs from like 6 years ago still working fine

SF Bay Furs

22 February 2026 19:16

I have a box full of 4tb used ones with like 10000 hours on them. Working and pass all smart long tests and badblock tests

SF Bay Furs

22 February 2026 19:15

typically.... nothing about used hardware is good except for the price

SF Bay Furs

22 February 2026 19:15

Glad I got a batch of 16tb refurb last year

SF Bay Furs

22 February 2026 19:13

I miss the past where things were better no memes no internet

SF Bay Furs

22 February 2026 19:12

My family had an old gateway cow that ran either windows 95 or 98 lol

SF Bay Furs

22 February 2026 19:11

My first Windows machine was a Toshiba back in 1996.

SF Bay Furs

22 February 2026 19:11

Good thing I’m still running the 1TB Hitachi HDDs I bought from Fry’s some 20 years ago!

SF Bay Furs

22 February 2026 18:38

Time to gamble and drink haven’t won anything well technically I have but lost it

SF Bay Furs

22 February 2026 05:53

My mom's 1980 BMW was great

SF Bay Furs

22 February 2026 20:09

most laptop drives are still SATA

SF Bay Furs

22 February 2026 19:40

i think there is, its just hard to mount it to the case right?

SF Bay Furs

22 February 2026 19:19

and that's how we lost the array 🎉

SF Bay Furs

22 February 2026 19:17

If one fails I'll just replace and let the raid rebuild and oh no it's slow for a while

SF Bay Furs

22 February 2026 19:16

lucky you I guess :P

SF Bay Furs

22 February 2026 19:16

I've had bad luck personally

SF Bay Furs

22 February 2026 19:16

Tbh the old clear plastic colorful iMacs are probably my favorite computers aesthetically ever

SF Bay Furs

22 February 2026 19:15

You might still be able to get the refurb ones

SF Bay Furs

22 February 2026 19:14

My first was a dell computer

SF Bay Furs

22 February 2026 19:12

I miss vintage computer looks a lot

SF Bay Furs

22 February 2026 19:12

Ive got 11 tb of space rn so im good for now

SF Bay Furs

22 February 2026 19:11

could be worse and be toshiba :P

SF Bay Furs

22 February 2026 19:09

😐

https://www.heise.de/en/news/WD-and-Seagate-confirm-Hard-drives-for-2026-sold-out-11178917.html

SF Bay Furs

22 February 2026 08:59

Doggo stealing the Winter Olympics.
https://fixupx.com/i/status/2025306818193354909

SF Bay Furs

22 February 2026 05:53

Not exactly unpopular opinions I know