[Discuss] Computer components that are available for free

[Alan W. Irwin]

I have the following two items that are available for free:

1. A USB2 and esata external SATA drive enclosure (Vantec NexStar).
This has housed several different SATA drives for me over the decade
of use to provide fast esata external drive backup capability for my
old computer.  But my new computer does not have esata capability, and
USB2 is too slow so I bought a Vantec NexStar USB3 to replace this old
enclosure, and that replacement is working fine.  But the old
enclosure is also still working fine and would be ideal for someone
whose computer had esata capability.

2. A new standard cooler that was bundled with my Ryzen 7 1700 cpu.
This became "excess to requirements" when I decided to get a
liquid cooler for my new box.

Of course, I could just recyle these.  That is better than creating
raw e-waste, but it is still not ideal (adds to the carbon footprint
and still creates some e-waste), and a much better solution would be
to find someone that can actually use these computer components.  So
if anyone here has a use for either/both of the above, please arrange
when you want to pick them up here by e-mail with me.

Alan
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Alan W. Irwin

Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state
implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); the Time
Ephemerides project (timeephem.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting
software package (plplot.sf.net); the libLASi project
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