Can I turn my HR10-250 into a storage drive for computer?

[plbacman]

I tiried to sell my two HR10-250 Directivo's a while back and had no bidders. They are useless at this point. can they be made into external storage?

[classicsat]

Yes, but it is not terribly easy, and not terribly worth it.

The best you can do is toss the drive itself in a USB or NAS case.

[CrashHD]

I've been watching HR10 auctions for a while, and the only ones I've seen not sell were ones with a high reserve price.

If you've got the remote and all the cables, it will likely bring at least #50, maybe even up to near $100.

If you want storage, I'd try selling again. You're almost certain to get enough to buy a new 250GB drive, rather than trusting data to a several years old, heavily used drive.

[HiDefGator]

You're almost certain to get enough to buy a new 250GB drive, rather than trusting data to a several years old, heavily used drive.

some might argue that the drive with the non-stop track record is a better bet than the untested drive in the box.

[stevel]

Well, no, age definitely takes a toll on drives. It's pretty rare to have a drive that's bad out of the box.

[HiDefGator]

Well, no, age definitely takes a toll on drives. It's pretty rare to have a drive that's bad out of the box.

some would say that drives are more likely to fail right out of the box then any other time in their lives.

[CrashHD]

"Some" are live in bizarro-world.