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Old/Used gear..where does yours go?

Goes into the walk in closet outside my bedroom. One day I will rummage through it and see what goodies are in there, I expect to find my old celeron 600 machine with a voodoo 3 pci and intelli mouse optical that I used for q3! :)
 
In organised clear plastic storage boxes. I will tend to keep backups just in case.

For my main windows rig I will keep a lower cpu/ram and identical motherboard as a backup. For Linux servers any motherboard will do as the kernel is not as fussy as windoze.

Recently I've started this recycling / selling to upgrade lark and have been saving myself a packet and a half. Sighs at some of the old hardware I have laying around which I should have sold on :(
 
Give old parts/pc's to friends or family, always someone who needs them, plus I do mostly all the repairs in my circle so old parts come in useful for that purpose; and there is nothing better then seeing these parts being put to good use.
 
In my shed I have a huge cardboard box, full to the brim with cables....Kettle leads/vga leads/fan cables/ide cables etc etc

I should just bin the lot but you never know when you might need them.
 
gregster said:
In my shed I have a huge cardboard box, full to the brim with cables....Kettle leads/vga leads/fan cables/ide cables etc etc

I should just bin the lot but you never know when you might need them.
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You need them they day after you bin them. That's what always happens to me anyway.
 
Nice to hear so many get passed onto family/friends. I have a cupboard full of gear and games, which I periodically tidy out.

Although I have now several old hdd's which came from upgrading pc's for people. I'm sure some contain data. I want to take them down to the recycling place we have in town, any advice as to whether I should send down as is or what can I do to ensure no data can be gleaned off them wherever they end up?
 
I'm personally uncomfy with giving what amounts to my cast offs to family and friends. As per tech support you implicitly become the first line of support and the guilt attached to things going wrong (more likely with older gear) makes me more inclined to move gear along to a perfect stranger if not just shelve it.
 
All always try to reuse or pass it on.

But, I do have a bad habit, when taking rubbish to the skips I tend to bring back pc bit, like cases, etc.
Had some good items like A2 & A3 printers, which I have got working, most have silly faults, then put them on Ebay, which have paid for my present upgrades.

I came unstuck in 2010 when I moved house, I needed a 2cu yd skip to clear all the pc clutter from my den:(, shame to throw it, but I haven't the space to store it in the new place.:(
 
colinmcr said:
Although I have now several old hdd's which came from upgrading pc's for people. I'm sure some contain data. I want to take them down to the recycling place we have in town, any advice as to whether I should send down as is or what can I do to ensure no data can be gleaned off them wherever they end up?
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A heavy hammer is very effective at clearing sensitive data on a hdd.:D

I have got hdds from old pc's from the skips, which have contained bank ,dss, health, & other personal details.
 
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