01-01-2013, 12:23 PM
Hi,
One thing which is easy to overlook regarding electronics is how quickly each new item goes out of date.
No doubt by the time my new computer reaches me on Friday it too will be rapidly aging.
I've been backing up lots of files including everything on Floppies to the Iomega 1TB external hard drive and there is still free space of 928GB available. My new computer is supplied with a 1TB HDD. Combined I believe I'll only use a fraction of this huge memory available.
Compare this 2TB with with the first ever hard drive introduced by IBM in 1956; this highly up to date drive in 1956 occupied the space of a refrigerator and stored 5MB of data. For home use there just has to be a limit eventually on data storage even for the most avid computer geek.
What is the best way of disposing of an old computer? My current old computer is promised to Joe but I'll retain its 80GB HDD for my own security and as it has 2 DVD/CD drives I'll retain one of these for use with my new computer as for my needs two DVD drives are very useful. I can now let the floppy drive go with the computer having backed up all the floppies.
I feel rather mean in retaining the HDD but I've been reading scare stories regarding these devices; free software is available to extract deleted files and although I trust Joe once the drive leaves me I no longer have control over it. At least these days a new 80GB HDD is very cheap so it will cost little to get this computer fully operational once again and to make up for it I also have a new motherboard to go with it.
I used to use Cyber Scrub to completely remove old data and files and would welcome members suggestions as to personal online safety.
Kind regards, Col.
One thing which is easy to overlook regarding electronics is how quickly each new item goes out of date.
No doubt by the time my new computer reaches me on Friday it too will be rapidly aging.
I've been backing up lots of files including everything on Floppies to the Iomega 1TB external hard drive and there is still free space of 928GB available. My new computer is supplied with a 1TB HDD. Combined I believe I'll only use a fraction of this huge memory available.
Compare this 2TB with with the first ever hard drive introduced by IBM in 1956; this highly up to date drive in 1956 occupied the space of a refrigerator and stored 5MB of data. For home use there just has to be a limit eventually on data storage even for the most avid computer geek.
What is the best way of disposing of an old computer? My current old computer is promised to Joe but I'll retain its 80GB HDD for my own security and as it has 2 DVD/CD drives I'll retain one of these for use with my new computer as for my needs two DVD drives are very useful. I can now let the floppy drive go with the computer having backed up all the floppies.
I feel rather mean in retaining the HDD but I've been reading scare stories regarding these devices; free software is available to extract deleted files and although I trust Joe once the drive leaves me I no longer have control over it. At least these days a new 80GB HDD is very cheap so it will cost little to get this computer fully operational once again and to make up for it I also have a new motherboard to go with it.
I used to use Cyber Scrub to completely remove old data and files and would welcome members suggestions as to personal online safety.
Kind regards, Col.
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