Like the title says, I have two old 1TB HDDs that I want to repurpose but that I do not trust for data storage as they are both over 6 years old and both make kinda weird noises when they're actively being read/written to (not the click noise, just static sounds).
This is my modest data server setup right now: i got a beelink SER5 as the server running ubuntu 24.04 LTS. I got an ORICO 4 bay raid drive with 2 14TB drives in RAID1 as my main data storage solution. Then I got a usb 2.5/3.5 dock. Currently my two random 1TB drives are sitting in the dock.
I guess what I'm asking for is an idea for a project with these two drives that I am skeptical for using for critical data storage. I'm by no means an expert in data storage, but i like to tinker around with stuff like this. One idea I had was trying to do data forensics on one of the drives since I formatted them. Yeah Idk, just looking for ideas!