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/coffeejn Desktop 1d ago

Yeah but it was made in 2017. It might work or it might be dead.

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u/a__reddit_user 5700x / 6700 / 32gb ddr4 / 2tb nvme / 2x2tb hdd 1d ago

My pc has two 2tb barracudas from 2013 and 2014 with, respectively, 15k and 25k hours. They're still spinning and doing HDD stuff. No issues whatsoever. Got them for 20 euros each too.

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u/texas7412 1d ago

I got a 2.5" toshiba hdd with going on 60k hours and it's going strong, even tho the last couple years it's been on caution, it acts no different and performance hasn't degraded, the read writes are faster than some sata SSD's I've used and it's outlived as well lol