Are 500GB 3.5 inch drives even worth bothering with anymore?!

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• ralf Member

  January 2025

  @default said:

  @davide said:

  @default said:
  I still have 3.5 inch floppy disks somewhere in storage. I would need a drive to test them, but I don't know if this solution helps too much.

  HODL stock.

  Diamond hands.

  I too have heaps of obsolescent trash that is more pain to get rid of than leave it where it is.

  Anyone wants a PS2 keyboard from 1995? Wow it's mechanical and all that...

  Mechanical old keyboard?! Now that is gold! Those were made to last.

  I have a REALLY good Dell mechanical keyboard, lovely clicking typing sound, but it's got a PS/2 connector. All the "PS/2 to USB" adapters I own are all passive from keyboard that supported USB or PS/2 and auto-detected, but this keyboard is so old it was PS/2 only. I'm probably going to retire the last machine I actively use that has a PS/2 connector soon, so I guess I need to find a proper convertor sometime.
• davide Member

  January 2025

  @default said:

  @davide said:

  @default said:
  I still have 3.5 inch floppy disks somewhere in storage. I would need a drive to test them, but I don't know if this solution helps too much.

  HODL stock.

  Diamond hands.

  I too have heaps of obsolescent trash that is more pain to get rid of than leave it where it is.

  Anyone wants a PS2 keyboard from 1995? Wow it's mechanical and all that...

  Mechanical old keyboard?! Now that is gold! Those were made to last.

  It's been on sale at 4€ for a year (+ 2€ shipping), no one cares :(
  It's tremendously dirty thought, I think that dunking it in soapy water would rust any metal in it. Oh my god I'm not gonna disassemble it to separate plastic from metal.