I recently bought a WD 16TB My Cloud EX2 Ultra NAS, which is really 8TB with a backup.
As I was cleaning my desk today, I dusted off 2x 3TB WD, 2x 3TB Samsung, 2x 2TB WD, 2x 1.5TB Seagate, 2x 1TB Seagate, a 1TB WD and a 0.5TB Lacie external drive. I've been moving data from these drives onto the NAS. Boy were there a lot of cables to untangle and clean!
I plan on using these drives as an offsite backup and giving some to relatives who probably don't do any backups.
Out of curiosity, have you been consolidating to bigger capacity drives, and what do you do with your older/smaller drives?
Take the lid off and watch them dance. Had a 5 1/4, 20MB once. Used those platters as ninja stars.
At work we used to take the neodynium magnets and permanently screw each others' CRT monitors with gauss.