Long term storage of Laptops

Andy_L

MouldyOldDough said:

I have two laptops that I intend to keep for years (Decades ?) Simply to allow me to use CD's/DVD's

The reason is that they are worth virtually zero in terms of £'s but one is "as new" (despite it being almost 10 years old) - the other is a high spec 5 year old i5 with a 1Tb SSD and 12Gb RAM - Yet is only valued at £12

Whilst I didn't expect £100's - I resent this tiny value

So my question is what to do with the lithium batteries ?

Should I remove them or leave them in place ?

Both laptops will run without batteries

but you do hear of old Lithium batteries starting fires !!

Whats the life span of the optical discs you intend to play on them?

As outtatune said an external drive would be less faff and I'd add backing up the contents of the discs so you still have it if the discs die

MouldyOldDough

Andy_L said:

MouldyOldDough said:

I have two laptops that I intend to keep for years (Decades ?) Simply to allow me to use CD's/DVD's

The reason is that they are worth virtually zero in terms of £'s but one is "as new" (despite it being almost 10 years old) - the other is a high spec 5 year old i5 with a 1Tb SSD and 12Gb RAM - Yet is only valued at £12

Whilst I didn't expect £100's - I resent this tiny value

So my question is what to do with the lithium batteries ?

Should I remove them or leave them in place ?

Both laptops will run without batteries

but you do hear of old Lithium batteries starting fires !!

Whats the life span of the optical discs you intend to play on them?

As outtatune said an external drive would be less faff and I'd add backing up the contents of the discs so you still have it if the discs die

But since I already have the laptop 
It makes sense to use them
I have some data CD's from pre 95 that are still ok
They used real Gold for CDR's in the early days rather than cyanine 

GDB2222

Have you tried CEX?

Sarahspangles

MouldyOldDough said:

But since I already have the laptop 

It makes sense to use them
I have some data CD's from pre 95 that are still ok
They used real Gold for CDR's in the early days rather than cyanine 

Have you already replaced the laptop(s)?

MouldyOldDough

GDB2222 said:

Have you tried CEX?

Yes - the Asus X75VC - 17.3 inch does not appear on CEX list of laptops bought !

CouldntResist

A 1Tb SSD costs very little so assuming you don't intend on increasing your collection why bother with using the physical disks at all; just image them using your current laptop, store them and mount them (the images) on a non-ancient PC when you need to?