old drive - use it till death or upgrade?

[notanotheracct]

i've got this drive, a 4-5 year old 40gb WD 2mb drive that seems to still work just fine, but i'm curious what some of you guys would do.

1. stay with it and just use it as a system drive until it dies (which may or may not be soon, and may be too paranoid)

or

2. sell it and buy something new


all logic aside, such as i don't NEED space but can always find ways to fill up more etc, just looking for opinions.

 

[Sentinel]

1.

buy a larger one, use as primary.

 

[Jiggz]

Use it but not for system drive. Maybe a storage hdd for data you can afford to live without. Option 2 is not ethically appropriate not to mention no one will probably buy it.

 

[PandaBear]

Option 2 will work, someone will buy it if the price is right. Heck, why do you need a 400Gb for a pet project that don't need performance or capacity?

Another option is to bring it to work, clone the drive from work to this drive, and upgrade the workplace PC. Make sure your boss is ok with it. My last work place from 1 year ago was using a 6Gb 5400rpm drive. 40Gb would be a huge upgrade.

 

[Kevlar Coated Tent]

Since you dont need the space then option 1 is probably best. Unless you have some reason to think its going to crap out soo in which case then 2 is probably a better option, i lived with a 80GB for years and i jst got a new 250 to go with it and i ahve already put a extra 80GB of stuff on that lol. More space is always useful but if its not broken dont fix it.