What to do with a bunch of old hard drives?

[Draco1962]

Below is a list of hard drives I found while clearing out a few drawers and closet nooks in my office. Most, if not all, still work. 

Size	Manufacturer	Model#	Interface	Speed	Form Factor
320 GB	Western Digital	WD3200AVVS-63L2B0	SATA	5400	3.5
4 TB	Western Digital	WD40EFRX-68WT0N0	SATA	5400	3.5
1 TB	Western Digital	WD1000DHTZ-60N21V0	SATA	10000	3.5
120 GB	Western Digital	WD1200JB-75CRA0	IDE	7200	3.5
80 GB	Western Digital	WD800BB-53CAA1	IDE	7200	3.5
80 GB	Western Digital	WD800BB-55JKC0	IDE	7200	3.5
100 GB	Western Digital	WD1000BB-00CAA1	IDE	7200	3.5
160 GB	Maxtor	6Y160P0-042811	IDE	7200	3.5
160 GB	Maxtor	6Y160P0-042812	IDE	7200	3.5
120 GB	Maxtor	6Y120L0-040401	IDE	7200	3.5
13.6 GB	Maxtor	91360U4-MA540PR0	IDE	5400	3.5
214 MB	Seagate	ST3243A	IDE	3800	3.5
214 MB	Seagate	ST3243A	IDE	3800	3.5

I could create a few NAS boxes or even convert a few old PCs I have laying around to the task. Cost is the biggest consideration. Suggestions welcome!

[ClassicGMR]

Wow... just my $0.02 but in my case I took all the SATA drives and put them into a tower I had lying around and made it a network storage server. All the IDE drives - um - disappeared.

[Draco1962]

12 hours ago, ClassicGMR said:

Wow... just my $0.02 but in my case I took all the SATA drives and put them into a tower I had lying around and made it a network storage server. All the IDE drives - um - disappeared.

I have a Dell Studio XPS 8000 that I may be able to leverage for the SATA drives. 

Did you have different sized drives? Did you just use them as a JBOD config or implement RAID? 

[ClassicGMR]

Nothing fancy. I just installed Win11 on an old 9th Gen, made the tower discoverable on the network and shared the drives. There's like 5 ranging from 240GB to 2TB.  I have a few more sitting on my repair desk I haven't bothered to install. Don't need the space yet. It's almost all music, videos, television, movies, etc.

[Draco1962]

The Dell Studio XPS 8000 has a 1 TB SATA drive already and native support for 4 drives total so that would take care of the SATA drives. I am trying to find at least a 4 bay external IDE enclosure to place the 120 GB and 160 GB drives to connect external to the XPS via USB for additional storage, but so far bupkiss.

There are plenty of single IDE drive enclosures, but that would be less than ideal due to space and USB port limitations and power management.

[ClassicGMR]

I know very little about that stuff but is this kind of what you're looking for?

[Draco1962]

More bays and cost than I want to pay but something like that would possibly work.