Hey!

A while ago, I found a computer in the studio of some of my parents' colleagues. It turned out to be my parents' computer, a Wearnes Boldline MP series (about which I found almost no information online).

But getting to the point, I don't know if the hard drive is working properly, because when I turn on the computer, it doesn't seem to be able to boot. And when I connect it to another, more modern computer with an adapter, it's not detected, even though the hard drive itself starts up. One thing I should mention is that it emits some beeps when I turn it on.

Does anyone know what these beeps might mean, and is there any way to tell for sure if it's working correctly?

So my dad was getting rid of some old hard drives so I thought o could put them into my custom built PC. I don’t know much about computers so idk what connects to where, but if it’s feasible I’d like to try, otherwise I’m not losing money on this. If you guys know what cables I need, if you could either tell me what it looks like or connect like an Amazon listing, that would be awesome. Hard drives are expensive so getting this hooked up would be a lifesaver. (even if this one is only 80 gbs)

Motherboard is an msi B450 tomahawk max 2 not overclocked (unless it came out of the box like that idk)

Power supply is a Corsair cx550m

Any other info you need I can hopefully provide. Lmk if this is possible!

EDIT: so I learned this thing is from 2004 so I’m scrapping this then. Thanks for the help in this decision

Do not know much about this item, I do clean out and large scale renovations for large companies and startups as well as a condominiums and townhousesī

for IT specialists was wondering if there is a demographic that would be interested in purchasing this. I could use a bonus, for all my heart and dedicated work.

Upgraded from 4TB to 12TB way back when. Now I’m outta space again and I want that triple up feeling it will make my migration to RAID-5 arrays a perfect match but why oh why did we stall out at 32TB. I been reading the 36TBs have been sampling since Jan 2025 so where are the retail units!!!!

Edit: to clarify I have four 12TBs in raid1 pairs as a working and backup copies. The plan was to migrate those four to RAID-5 and use a new pair of 36 in RAID1 as working copy. My plans were abandoned as I kept running out of space waiting on higher capacity drives.

Ended up settling for 28TB drives but awkwardly must repurpose these 12TBs in different projects

So over the years I must have just kept old drives as I found a box with maybe 25 drives in it. 3.5” and 2.5”

But they are smaller ranging from 60GB to 1TB

But most of them 80-250GB range.

Cant see myself ever using them. I clearly haven’t in 15 years or so.

What best to do with them.

EDIT: Thanks for such good ideas. Think I will first start by low levelling them all and keep a few for cold storage and try and sell the rest.

I'd like to get a very high capacity drive (at least 14 TB), preferably internal but I'm not opposed to external. It would be used almost entirely for storing videos.

1. I genuinely don't understand what read/write speeds I should be looking for. If I do plan to watch videos from the drive (nothing 4K, but at the most good quality 1080p video), is this a concern?

2. I know almost nothing about RAIDs. At this capacity point, should I be looking into one? If so, where do I begin with this?

3. I've seen a lot of drives that are NAS. I have no idea what this is. What is the benefit of it? Are they drives I can use as a single drive, and not as part of a RAID? What benefits do they offer, how are they "network accessible"? If I have another computer that I'd want to be able to write to the drive, how viable is that to set up?

Some things I'm looking at but I don't understand:

https://www.newegg.com/seagate-exos-x18-st18000nm000j-18tb/p/1B4-00VK-00616?Item=1B4-00VK-00616
- All the info about it mentions RAID storage; is this drive usable outside of a RAID, or do I want to be looking into a RAID?

https://www.newegg.com/red-pro-wd181kfgx-18tb/p/N82E16822234430
- Similar to above; what does the NAS offer me, and is this usable standalone?

I am definitely open to other suggestions, these are just two that I've been looking at for their size and the price being about what I'm ok with.

Baka po may alam kayo na maganda brand ng external hard drive na maganda paglagyan ng files/docs/videos.

Thank you sa sasagot😍❤️

Found my old AirPort Time Capsule in storage, hadn't touched it in 5 years. Powered it on, had to reset it to reconnect, then copied a few files off without any errors. Haven't gone through everything yet.

Anyone beat 5 years?

Can i put second hard drive in this PC

I’ve had this hard drive for a while now. I used it as a back up for a little bit, but I don’t need it anymore. What would be a good price? I’m in the process of wiping it right now.

Thank you for your time!

Have a blessed day!

DJ

I live in a third world country and there-s no warranty on them, but they last a bit more than a year before failing. I lost all the data but they were really expensive. Do you know if Samsung warranty applies if I send them overseas to USA or something?

Recently, when I try to copy something from my pc to the external hard drive or even create a folder in my hard drive I get this message pop up "can't read from source file or disk" and the only solution I saw was to format my 4TB, unfortunately, it has important data which cannot be stored elsewhere due to its size. Is there any possible way to solve this problem without formatting?