What To Do With Old USB Keys, Low-Capacity Hard Drives? 546
MessedRocker writes "I have at least a few USB flash drives around that I haven't needed since I got my 16GB flash drive, a 40GB external hard drive which I haven't needed since I upgraded to 500GB, and a couple of SATA hard drives I have pulled out of laptops which are either as large or smaller than the one I have in my laptop now. Furthermore, I don't really know anyone who needs any hard drives or flash drives. What should I do with my small, obsolete storage devices?"
Simple (Score:4, Funny)
Become a porn secret santa (Score:5, Funny)
Give them to CowboyNeal (Score:2, Funny)
This should about double the /. server storage space.
You'll need to throw in ISA SATA and USB cards though.
Seriously. (Score:4, Funny)
Mail them to me.
Re:Simple (Score:3, Funny)
Do what I did to my old printer that kept telling me to "PC load letter".
Hitting a thumb drive with a hammer is not nearly as satisfying as elbow dropping a printer. It's one and done.
What I normally do is (Score:5, Funny)
Good times (Score:5, Funny)
Explosives + Old Hardware = Good Times!
Raid! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Starcraft on a stick. (Score:5, Funny)
Whats better than whipping it out and playing some starcraft?
Whipping it out is always good, Starcraft's just a bonus.
Create your own videos (Score:1, Funny)
Will they blend?!
Only one thing to do... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Simple (Score:5, Funny)
Do what I did to my old printer that kept telling me to "PC load letter".
Load 'letter' sized paper into the paper cassette tray and continue?
Re:Become a porn secret santa (Score:5, Funny)
Your plan is nice and all, but it lacks the life-destroying element that a truly diabolical plan should have.
What he should do is load them up with child porn and sneak them into the briefcases of all the people who have wronged him. He does keep a list of everyone who has ever wronged him labeled "people to utterly destroy", right? Doesn't everybody?
Anyway, after you've done that, place anonymous calls to the FBI from various pay phones saying you've seen these people loitering around elementary schools. Then, sit back and watch your problems disappear.
Re:Simple (Score:5, Funny)
I'm sorry, but that's just not how we do things around here. If the printer is doing anything other than printing your document, the correct solution is to wander aimlessly away and hope someone else will eventually fix it. As an added bonus, you get to tell everyone the printer is broken, and that's why you weren't able to get any work done today.
Re:Microwave (Score:2, Funny)
You forgot to tell him to stand in front of it to make sure it cooks properly.
Hard drives are a lot like hot dogs, you don't wanna cook them without your face right there next to the glass.
Re:Become a porn secret santa (Score:5, Funny)
Load them up with porn and give them to random people anonymously. They will thank you for it!
Done and done! I made sure to include two girls and one cup, Mr. Hands, and the awesome Glass Ass a couple of dozen times, but I helpfully changed their names.
Well, it's almost Easter. And that's sort of an Easter Egg.
I wonder how they'll thank me?
Re:Spread Stuff (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Good times (Score:3, Funny)
Explosives + Zealous Police = Hard Time!
Re:One word... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Simple (Score:5, Funny)
That's two words (Score:3, Funny)
s/([a-z])([A-Z])/${1}_$2/g
Real geeks don't strip spaces - they use underscores :P
(Unless you're a JavaScript programmer in which case I'm terribly sorry...)
Re:Chuck'em out (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Good times (Score:2, Funny)
Explosives + (Anything) = Good Times
Target practice for a HERF gun (Score:2, Funny)
Build yourself a HERF gun (from the old microwave you need to recycle) and use the drives to test EMP resistance measures.
Re:Simple (Score:4, Funny)
Obviously your users haven't discovered the "send the job to every printer on site" trick yet. Works like a charm and I get to recycle stacks and stacks of orphaned documents.
Re:The answer is obvious (Score:3, Funny)
Go back in time to 1960 and sell them for several hundred million each.
whoever modded parent "informative" needs a serious head check
Thumb drive uses (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Dont know. (Score:3, Funny)
Really.
You could, for example, hold one in your hand and imagine a Beowulf cluster of 'these'.
Re:Simple (Score:4, Funny)
Are you whispering in italics because you're a polite Canadian? Cheney's gone, man, you don't have to worry about criticizing America anymore!
Re:Chuck'em out (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Become a porn secret santa (Score:3, Funny)
Quite right. Whoever gets around to lists. Why procrastinate? Utterly destroy people at the earliest opportunity.
Set an example (Score:2, Funny)
Line up all your current hard drives and USB drives, and force them to watch as your slowly destroy one of the obsolete drives. Then tell them this is what will happen to them if they EVER give you write errors or get bad sectors!
Fear can be a powerful weapon!
Make it into a cow! (Score:2, Funny)
This is what I did with a leftover USB key:
http://blog.boogly.net/2008/10/diy-cow-usb-flash-drive/
Re:The answer is obvious (Score:4, Funny)
Re:ebay maybe? (Score:5, Funny)
However, be advised that this may affect the resale value.
Re:ebay maybe? (Score:3, Funny)
Even worse, they could randomly come together and create something worse like kidde porn or Windows ME.
Playing with Magnets (Score:3, Funny)
A friend of mine loves old harddrives. They have a lot of super heavyduty magnets in them. To my knowledge he just dismantles the drive and then sticks'm to his fridge but ... either way, ubermagnets are fun!
Re:ebay maybe? (Score:3, Funny)
upgrade (Score:2, Funny)
Open 40 MB harddisk
Carefully take out read/write head
File off some material off said read/write head
Carefully insert read/write head
Close 1 TB harddisk
Profit