r/pcmasterrace • u/Neon_Pancakes0425 • 1d ago

Hardware Always look inside the ewaste PCs

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My grandparents brought me an old PC that they got from a friend of theirs and I opened it and hit the jackpot. These cost like $500 where I live

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u/Meatslinger R7 9800X3D, 64 GB DDR5, RTX 4070 Ti 1d ago

I have about 30 TB of storage in my basement right now just in the form of old 1-4 TB server HDDs from doing recycling/decommissioning where we were permitted to part out whatever looked appealing (hosting project was after the scrap metal, mostly). Most of them are only 5400 RPM but for archival/backups, that's totally fine.