How do you organize your extra computer parts?

Question

I build and repair computers, and have tons of extra hard drives, ide cables, motherboards, psu piling up in boxes. What’s steps have your taken on organize your excess parts?

Answer 1

For the PSUs, I use either big cardboard boxes, or the big plastic storage bins. Keep them all together. Also, a big box for all the thick cabling--like power supply cords, the RCA cables that you get with video cards, etc. I use twist ties and just throw them all in there. If you have to go through it at some point, it will stay pretty neat.

In general, "anything with a cord", such as game pads and mouses will go in there. AC power adapters too. (A separate box for keyboards--stack them in). I keep the rounded cable cords seperate from motherbooard cabling.

My favorite boxes of all are empty motherboard boxes. Perfect size for a lot of things. Mounting hardware, drive rails, PCI cards, CPUs. I also use these for hard drives. But CD-ROM and floppy drives get stacked on top of each other in a big box.

(Also, like the first person mentioned, be sure to pull out the CPUs and RAM from old motherboards for a future keychain project. An empty motherboard box for these too :P)

Answer 2

Since computer cases are big enough to fit alot of the parts. I just pile alot of the cables and hardware in the cases. Its clean and you don't have to use boxes at all.

Answer 3

I made key chains out of my extra memory and sold them to friends

here's a pic, but its not my site
http://www.jadeddreads.com/catalog/images/memory.jpg

I keep all my extra pieces in a large gym bag.
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lots of foam and static free bags too