Stop hoarding right now

fuck me, this applies to me

I actually just had use for a IDE drive and cable. I don't hoard anything though

Its instinctual. When I was a teen in the late 90s getting any money out of my parents was like pulling teeth. I had to save for the important stuff like CPUs, RAM, mobos, and graphics cards, so whenever I got my hands on an old machine I scavenged every last screw out of it. Every fan, cable, drive, DIMM, CPU, heatsink, slot bracket, expansion card, every goddamn jumper cap. If I wasn't going to keep the PSU (like if it was a proprietary form-factor) I'd cut the wires off of it so I'd have them later if I needed to splice more connectors on. Saved a few bucks on splitter cables and shit.

>>61646008
DVI-VGA adapters can come in handy. IDE is shit though. HDD cages useful if you have a case that uses them.

>>61646008
where am i supposed to put my hard drives?

>>61646008
i need those adapters and cables tho.

Damn it I have two 3 drawer plastic bins full

>>61646008
Way ahead of you.

>>61646008
I had 3 gallon bags full of them. I managed to get it down to a single zip lock sandwich baggy. It was painful to throw away all those perfectly good adapters

>>61646112
No, fuck that mentality. Stop hoarding your shit, its weighing you down.

Whenever I throw something out I end up needing it like a month later for something

>>61646008
1) I use VGA-DVI adapters all the time. Very useful for attaching multiple monitors to one card or multiple computers to a single monitor.

2) IDE drives are fine for cold storage.

3) HDD cages are vital if you want to use any kind of RAID/ZFS.