This talk discusses the work to date of the Drives Project, a 9-year (and counting) effort that is creating a large-scale collection of real disk drive images, open source tools, and new techniques for automatically processing data recovered from disk drives and other kinds of storage devices. Today the Drives Project has assembled a corpus of more than 1000 forensically interesting images from hard drives and USB storage devices that were collected all over the world. We have created open source formats, tools and algorithms for automatically analyzing this data in bulk and rapidly producing answers to questions that are relevant to the Defense, Intelligence and Law Enforcement communities. The Project is now in the process of dramatically expanding the global reach of data being acquired and exploring new research opportunities for using this data.