PLACE YOUR BETS - I just found a brand new in sealed box USB3 1TB Seagate Had drive with copyright date, 2012... WILL IT

[SDGuy]

That reminds me: I've got a still-in-shrinkwrap Western Digital 5000H1U 500GB External USB harddrive from 2008 sitting on the "Vintage Computers" desk (between the Beige G3 and 20" 2007 iMac). I have no idea what to do with it, or how I got it. I suspect it's from work: I have a dim recollection of a directive coming out circa 2009ish that made external harddrives forbidden, but I had already acquired one - so they just let me have it (I think...the memory is very fuzzy).