Two SSDs, what to do?

[J-Money]

Hi all,

I have a 64gb Crucial Realssd c300 that's currently my OS drive and part is partitioned for Srt cache.

For Xmas ill be getting a Samsung 830 256gb ssd.

What should I do?

Use the Crucial for OS and Samsung for games / programs? With no srt?

Use Samsung for OS / programs/ games and use Crucial as cache for my 750gb drive?

Any other ideas?

Not sure how much faster Samsung 830 is/may be than my Crucial. Both are SATA 3.

 

[blastingcap]

little - OS
big - other stuff (games, programs, etc.)

Don't worry about speed differences because a c300 is good enough for OS. You can't really tell the difference in almost all normal circumstances. The 830 is obviously fast as well.

No need for SRT, that is for people who want to fiddle around with a SSD cache + HDD but in your case you have a small SSD for OS already.

Just my 2 cents.

 

[ShintaiDK]

Personally I would retire/give away the 64GB.

 

[blastingcap]

Personally I would retire/give away the 64GB.

Wow you must be loaded. Please send all your retiree SSDs my way. 😉

 

[ShintaiDK]

Wow you must be loaded. Please send all your retiree SSDs my way. 😉

SSDs are dirt cheap here. Its just a matter of average wage I guess. I will retire a 80GB X25M G1 when Haswell arrives. You are free to get that, should you wish at the time.

 

[kbp]

Samsung as primary.
Crucial - IRST your 750 spinner.

 

[blastingcap]

SSDs are dirt cheap here. Its just a matter of average wage I guess. I will retire a 80GB X25M G1 when Haswell arrives. You are free to get that, should you wish at the time.

Well I currently have 1,848 GB (dang, didn't realize it was that much... 2TB here I come haha) worth of SSDs if you combine all of my PCs and servers, but I still wouldn't just retire a C300 64GB like that unless I really did not have a need for it.

 

[tracerbullet]

I'd put the new one in my main rig, divide it in half, and dual boot it. Then put the old SSD into my parents machine.

Oh wait, I am.

If that's what is meant by giving away the old one, I'm all for it. I don't think anyone was talking about throwing it into a trash can.

 

[zCypher]

I'd use the biggest fastest one for the OS drive. Then load all the apps that would take most advantage of it there. Load up Office, Photoshop if you use that, etc. You should have room for some games too. Steam lets you select which drive you want to install to for most titles now, so games that seem to benefit more from SSD or that are more important to you / don't take overwhelming amount of space, pop those onto the main drive too.

You could use the smaller one as a place to put some things / transfer things to-from both SSDs quickly, for whatever uses.