What to do with old USB memory sticks

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What to do with old USB memory sticks

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I've about a dozen spare, from 2GB up to 64GB. They all work and I could do without them cluttering up a drawer.

Are they useful to anyone, it seems a shame to bin them.
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Re: What to do with old USB memory sticks

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Load em up with Stuxnet and leave em outside uranium enrichment buildings with "Porn" written on em with a Sharpie?
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I'll post them to you, you're closer than I am to where that can be done.
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As a geeky time wasting exercise, I saw a few years ago where someone set a load up as a sort of RAID storage ... thing.
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cheb wrote: Mon Mar 29, 2021 9:24 pm I'll post them to you, you're closer than I am to where that can be done.
Shit, yeah. I'm a lot closer.
Maybe don't do that then, I've gone off the idea of Stuxnet USB sticks in the Selafield contractor carpark.
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Throw them in the sea.
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Re: What to do with old USB memory sticks

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Horse wrote: Mon Mar 29, 2021 9:38 pm As a geeky time wasting exercise, I saw a few years ago where someone set a load up as a sort of RAID storage ... thing.
That'd be pretty easy to do
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Re: What to do with old USB memory sticks

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I have a few myself and tbh I'm of the thinking that they are basically old tech now and therefore pretty much useless/ worthless ?!
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Re: What to do with old USB memory sticks

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Anyone want them before I bin them? I'll have wiped them first.
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Gut 'em and modify them;

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Re: What to do with old USB memory sticks

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I'm surprised that they're considered "old tech". Maybe the 2GB ones are considered too small these days, but surely not the larger 64GB ones?

I'd take them off your hands if I was nearer.
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Re: What to do with old USB memory sticks

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I'll post them if you want them.