I’ve got a problem. I’m a technology hoarder. I still have the first PC I bought myself some 15 years ago cause “I might use it for something!”
My desktop after that one is an unRAID box. The one after that is my “lab” PC (3d printing, embedded projects etc) and then finally, my current generation main PC.
I want to upgrade my main PC soon (can’t run new games, CPU and GPU limited), which means potentially kicking everything else “down the chain” to a new purpose as it gets a slightly better version of itself. I find the thought of this exhausting though. So much configuration/setup to give upgrades to things whose existence is only because I didn’t want to part with functioning hardware.
My current thought is to “break the cycle” by condensing all non-primary functions to my current PC, as an unRAID box hosting everything other than main gaming PC. From there, the rule needs to be tech goes into one of those two boxes, or it gets sold/donated.
What do you all think. Is that reasonable? How do you manage your spare equipment post upgrade?
I like to think I sell them or give them to friends. Realistically I either put them in my server (started when I build a new PC) or put them in the way until my wife gets mad and puts them in the basement where I never remember them again.
*gestures broadly to the several stacks of psus and cases from the early 2000s in the corner of the boiler room* 🤣
d) I’m in this photo and I don’t like it.
You never know when you’ll need them. As soon as they’re gone a perfect use case will pop up.