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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I saw some short a out people harvesting them from old modems.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Old cable TV and satellite boxes often have hard drives, I think I used to find 500gb drives in there. But they have TONS of usage. I think I paid $1-2 for them.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Yeah, old DVR boxes were pretty fantastic when you just needed a lot of storage. They were one of the few places you could reliably find 1TB drives, back when those were still fairly new and expensive.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Ayuo, i have a great time scavenging fetch boxes from hard rubbish. Lowest sized drive in those is 1tb