To Keep, or Not to Keep - Drives After Headswap?

[Dizidago357]

All,

We have been keeping everything we can for all mechanical repairs for going on 6 or so years now. We have amassed a large amount of drives that we used for donors over the years for headswaps. We strip the PCBs and reuse them often, but the motor and chassis of the drives just sit on a shelf and collect dust. We started keeping them in the event that we would ever need to do a platter swap for seized spindles, but in the entire period of time we may have done one or two platter swaps, and we just used the drive we received as the donor, as we needed heads in addition to the motor issues.

My question is - what do you guys do with your leftover motor only drives? Do you bin them (recycle), or do you keep them for later usage? If you keep them, do you have a set procedure for how many of what model you keep on hand?

Dizi

[labtech]

WD are not important as motor issues are rare.

I would keep everything else as much as possible and space allows.