Saving old hard drives... Mileage in this?

[Hodgkinson]

Folks,
Long time no see and a merry Christmas too!

Question: I've just emptied a bunch of old 4GB IDE hard drives. What with the prevalence of both a. SATA drives, and b. Huge disks compared to what older systems were intended to run with; should I be considering saving them?

Or is there a convenient away around this these days that someone has come up with?

(Before said drives are stripped for the magnets and Molex sockets...)

Cheers!

[Hodgkinson]

Thanks for the comments folks

OK, So it seems IDE hard drives are somewhat useful, but can be easily worked around.

Good comments on the SCSI drives though - I have a stack of old server modest capacity SCSI drives that I'd probably better hang on to by the sounds of it!

Cheers,
Hodgkinson.