I have 4 older unused laptop drives. What to do with them?

[MacMike81]

I have probably 2 TB of hard drives between 4 drives that came out of various laptops when upgrading to SSDs.

What can I do with them? Would be cool to maybe attach them to my network or something?

 

[justashooter]

If they are big enough use them for backups. That is what I use mine for, with carbon copy cloner, after I put 500gb ssd's in the MBP's. If your router has USB you could connect one there for network attached storage.

 

[Fishrrman]

Agree with post above about using them for backups, or perhaps for "scratch storage" -- stuff that isn't important enough to be on your internal drive, but that you'd just like to keep around.

You could buy one or two of these:

SABRENT 2.5 Inch SATA to USB 3.0 Tool Free External Hard Drive Enclosure [Optimized for SSD, Support UASP SATA III] Black (EC-UASP)

SABRENT 2.5 Inch SATA to USB 3.0 Tool Free External Hard Drive Enclosure [Optimized for SSD, Support UASP SATA III] Black (EC-UASP)

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Or, consider a USB3/SATA docking station (that accepts 2.5" drives).