[ubuntu-uk] What to do with a spare laptop hard drive

[Rob Beard]

Thomas Ibbotson wrote:
> I guess this is a little off topic, but a bit of random googling didn't 
> really inspire me. I have a spare laptop hard drive and I want to do 
> something with it. I could of course buy a USB casing for it and have 
> yet another external hard drive, but I don't really need it. Some sort 
> of custom made media device might be cool, but it would probably end up 
> being pretty hefty.
> 
> Any ideas welcome.
> 
> Tom
> 

I'd go for the USB hard drive option, you never know when it might come 
in handy.  IIRC you can also get some media players that take laptop 
size hard drives (actually I might have mistaken them with 3.5" hard 
drive players).  Other than that, you could always sell it on?

Rob