On Thu, 29 Mar 2018 15:51:31 -0500, Lynn McGuire
wrote:

On 3/29/2018 2:06 PM, Mark Perkins wrote:

What do you do with the drives that you take out of service?

I either stick them in a drawer or repurpose them in a very limited
manner. When the drawer gets too full, I take my hammer and screwdriver
and punch a hole through the platters.

OK, thanks for the info. I'll probably do something similar. You get to
a point where it doesn't make sense to run so many drives. For me, at 15
data drives and an SSD in a PCIe bracket, the rig is full. I could
easily add SATA ports, but there's nowhere to put more drives. I'm
starting to lean toward migrating to a much smaller number of bigger
drives.