what should i do with my "old" SSD?

[BlahBlahYouToo]

it's not really that old, having been used for only a few months as the system drive.
it's a kingston V+100 96gb (toshiba controller).
my primary is a 64gb crucial m4.

i have a z68 so i can either use ssd caching...
or just use it normally for games and to host a couple of VM's to spread the disk I/O.

my games folder is well under 50gb so it can easily handle all of it and whatever new games come out.

my hdd is a 1tb WD that only houses multimedia files.

 

[Ika]

Do you play games often? What games do you play? Some will benefit from being used on an SSD (mostly load times, but games like WoW can have greatly-improved performance). If it's not that important to you then you may as well use it for VMs, if the 64gb is enough for your primary OS+programs.

 

[groberts101]

I'd cache to some of it for keeping the writes down on a smaller OS drive like that... and then use the rest of the space for your games to keep the OS drive leaner, cleaner, and meaner.

 

[razel]

Since it's just a toy, play around with a software RAID in windows... crazy easy. Or sell it and use that money for the upcoming Black Friday.

 

[Demon-Xanth]

I can send you my mailing address and a few bucks for shipping if you still can't find anything to do with it. 🙂

...though if I were you I'd use it for processing the multimedia files. That tends to be a disk intensive task and produces a good number of large files in the process that aren't needed when it's complete.

 

[BlahBlahYouToo]

don't play games very often. just some sc2, waiting for d3.

 

[Old Hippie]

I purchased a 64GB Kingston SSDNow 100V (?) just to store a fully operating clone of my OS & programs.

 

[groberts101]

you know you're moving up in the world of PC's when you're using an SSD to backup your SSD. lol

I even retired one of my old Vertex 30's to a USB 3.0 external enclosure to become a glorified USB stick. Works slick.

 

[jhansman]

I just picked up a 90GB Corsair Force Series 3 as an impulse buy. The next day I'm wondering "what the hell did I do that for?" If it benches better than my M4, I'll use it for my boot drive and one or two big apps (Office, Photoshop) and the Crucial will run whatever else I regularly use. My 1 TB spinner will still be for data.