What retro things have you done today?

jennidc · Friday at 21:25

I installed the aliexpress app on my phone and got offered a 500gb batocera kinhank hard drive for £3.49 with free shipping - I paid more than that for hungry horace on tape for the spectrum

Needless to say I ordered it and can't wait to try it out on my laptop.

NickK · 2024-12-22T04:20:02+0000

jennidc said:
I installed the aliexpress app on my phone and got offered a 500gb batocera kinhank hard drive for £3.49 with free shipping - I paid more than that for hungry horace on tape for the spectrum

Needless to say I ordered it and can't wait to try it out on my laptop.

Not sure I risk instaling anything for a “bargin” seems suspicious to me.

NickK · 2024-12-22T04:22:21+0000

mid_gen said:
Doing some clearing out. got a draw full of hard drives, was about to start dismantling and binning them.....but one is a 36Gb WD Raptor, any interest to retro nerds?

10K rpms.. I have a load of HDs sitting around including a raptor. i had two ind RAID0 back in the day.

jennidc · 2024-12-22T17:50:14+0000

NickK said:
Not sure I risk instaling anything for a “bargin” seems suspicious to me.

Sites like Temu and Aliexpress always offer great new customer deals as they play the long game and figure you will order again. I'll scan the drive anyway before installing anything but there are loads of reviews of the product on YouTube so I'm sure it will be fine.