I have about 10 Portable 2.5" HDD's I somehow built up over the years, plus an additional 10 2.5" HDD's laying around that aren't in enclosures at the moment. I'm tossing up between wiping them all and disposing of them, and buying an enclosure to use them in a NAS. 7 of them are reasonable at between 2TB and 4TB capacity. It's just, they're so fucking slow. Is it really worth it to keep using HDD's in this day and age, or should I accept that their time has come and throw them out? I think I will just be dissapointed and annoyed with how slow they are if I keep them around and use them for hosting media on a plex server - But I haven't tested them out for that so I'm not sure.
I'm leaning towards wiping and getting rid of them. Any suggestions for a use I might find for them? Are you still using a HDD? Why? What do you use it for? I feel like the time it takes for shit to load on them isn't worth it and it just detracts to heavily from whatever I'm doing on a computer.
lxer.com has been compromised for years and it's barely gone without mention. Is it due to a lack of popularity or something? The website doesn't have a valid SSL certificate and has been prone to URL redirects for a long time. I made a thread on there a long time ago that they should secure their website, but nothing came of it. If you do use Lxer... Don't. Getting redirected to an advertisement or dodgy website is minor, but what's not minor is visiting the lxer page, everything appearing normal and you login with your username and password. What you don't realise, is that there could be an invisible overlay right over the "username" and "password" sections you have just been typing in, and that's been sent off to who knows where. Don't use Lxer.