I got a massif amount of driver cd’s here. Monitors, motherboards, videocards, soundcards etc. I think it surpased the 100 cd’s easily.
I am a bit carefull/paranoia/pure crazy trowing them away. As many of the hardware is in a pc *somewhere* or lying in a box, with the posibility to be used again. (this happens on a regular basis that I lend out/give hardware to somebody who needs it.).
I am just not sure what the best way is to handle this mess. Trow everything I cannot directly place away? rip them to iso’s and store them on an hardisk? buying a big box and trow everything in?
How do others handle this mess?
Q
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Throw them away. I never keep driver disks. They are almost always useless to keep. In your case you run Linux so I’m sure every one of them are pointless to have. On top of that if you did run windows I”m sure they are outdated. Manufacturers keep drivers on their website no need to keep the cd’s these days. That’s my opinion anyways. Guess if you really did want to keep them I would just put them in a cd booklet and hide them in my closet. 100+ cd’s would take up a good amount of room for something you won’t use very often if ever.
I’m trowing it all away. You can always download newer drivers if you ever need them.
I guess I will trow them away.
greg said what i came here to say. I’ve never used the driver cds even when the hardware was brand new. I’ve found that even brand new out of the box the drivers were outdated.