Hard Drive salvaged

[Dabler]

I have salvaged a Hard Drive 1TB from my old computer and brought a HD enclosure, now fitted, rescued most of my data from it to my new second hand computer, the enclosure is powered by the 240v mains.
It has win 7 on it but new computer win 10 plus the HD in it is 500gb.
Now should I just stick the 1TB drive in a cupboard and forget it or format it and plug into the newish computer.
What would you do ?

 

[johnb35]

If you need extra storage use it. What exact model of drive is it?

 

[Dabler]

Got this on a program called speccy, haven't a clue what it all means.
LITEON UITRA1 SCSI Disk Device
Heads 16
Cylinders 121,601
Tracks 31,008,255
Sectors 1,953,520,065
SATA type SATA-II 3.0Gb/s
Device type Fixed
ATA Standard ATA8-ACS
Serial Number JP2940J81U3EWV
Firmware Version Number JP4OA3FE
LBA Size 48-bit LBA
Power On Count 2626 times
Power On Time 595.1 days
Speed 7200 RPM
Features S.M.A.R.T., APM, NCQ
Max. Transfer Mode SATA II 3.0Gb/s
Used Transfer Mode SATA II 3.0Gb/s
Interface USB (SATA)
Capacity 931 GB
Real size 1,000,204,886,016 bytes
RAID Type None

 

[johnb35]

As far as I know, Liteon doesn't make hard drives. According to the details its a Sata 2 drive which is quite old at this point. I don't know if I would trust it to hold data or not.

 

[Dabler]

A bit of an update.
The hard drive is a Hitachi sata 7200speed 1TB with win 7.
I put it in my new computer and after some time it loaded win 7 but my 32 inch monitor did not like the settings so will scrap the idea of using win 7.
I will next format the spare drive and use it for storing data.