Hello all, hoping for some help! I am setting up a homelab with the best equipment I have, an “free” old gaming pc (figured this is better than spending money on a new setup). I recently came across these hard drives at an estate sale and picked them up for a whopping $2. I confirmed they were wiped at pickup.

From what I can tell, these things are pretty old (7 Seagate 7200.10 and 2 7200.12). I want to see if it’s worth it to try and use this as a storage solution with a lot of parity/backup, or if they’ll be too risky with their age. If so, I do want to know if it’s okay to use a jbod/acrylic case solution to house these outside of the pc case and connect via SATA? I’m not sure if I could squeeze in one or two drives in the case, unfortunately the bottom port is full with the psu and leftover storage for the pc.…