On Tue, 30 Dec 2014 12:04:04 -0600, Swingman wrote:

There are a couple of boxes here in my home office, way back in a
closet,
that must contain 30+ hard drives from the past 25 years.

I have never disposed of a computer/server without keeping the hard
drive(s).

Well, all the new computers are using SATA drives. So while our IDE and
EIDE drives aren't quite useless yet, it won't be long until they are :-)