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120GB SSD That Needs a Purpose

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datora:
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Don't know what you use your computers for.  If you do video editing/rendering/encoding, heavy graphics editing, lots of games, then the SSD is a good scratch drive or game drive.  Should give an edge over the 10K drive, but won't be spectacular.

Buy an add-in card such as:

 - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816132012

I have a couple.  They work great in a wide variety of rigs if you have a slot for them.  Reliable tech, even though this one is only SATA I (1.5 Gb/s).  Run your BL/HD-DVD Burner off one of its SATA ports.  You can also look around for something with more throughput if you think you need it, but it's plenty for a BD burner.  DISCLOSURE: I've not used mine for BD burners, only DVD, both SATA & PATA ... but, the tech specs on bandwidth for BD shouldn't be able to use all of 1.5 Gb/s.

Anyway.  You now have a SATA port on your mobo open, which I would expect is SATA III (6 Gb/s) given the specs on your other hardware.  Work your SSD into that config somehow and it should be your second fastest option after your pair of 40 GB SSDs.


Another option is replace your main drive in your laptop with it.  Use your current laptop drive as a portable storage device.  Buy a USB 3.0 enclosure for it and you can plug it into any system, your laptop included, as a mass data storage device while the SSD should vastly increase your laptop performance and reduce its power draw.  A USB 3 portable storage will saturate bandwidth for USB 2 ports, so you should generally see an increase in mass data transfer over USB 2 ... otherwise, in most cases, you never really need much more than about half what USB 2 provides for things such as streaming or torrenting.

Freedom Kira:

--- Quote from: kitamesume on July 04, 2012, 04:34:50 AM ---then its either move the contents to the 1TB and leave a few in the SSD, or sell the SSD for a little profit.

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I think you missed this part:


--- Quote from: Proin Drakenzol on July 04, 2012, 04:29:02 AM ---So, what should I do with this drive? Suggestions need to be such that the drive stays in my possession and is used in a manner consistent with its intended purpose as an SSD.

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I think you could build a pretty decent NAS by moving that array of 1TB disks you have into a dedicated box and using the SSD as the OS drive for that. That should take a load off your desktop as well.

Alternatively, you could move the two striped SSDs into the NAS as well, along with the CPU, mobo, and PSU, and build yourself a new desktop. I would put into the NAS the striped SSDs if your new SSD is SATA III, or the new SSD if it's SATA II. A single 120GB SATA III SSD, assuming you got a good one, should outperform the striped 40GB SSDs and last longer, which would make it the better choice for your upgraded desktop.

Both options do involve buying more hardware though, which you may or may not be happy with...

You should also totally upgrade those 1TB disks to 4TB or 3TB disks. I have a 6x3TB disk RAID5 array myself that I built nearly a year ago and it's still doing great, though Newegg seems to have discontinued the line of Hitachis I got for $120 each back then.

lapa321:
Use it for video editing.

kitamesume:
no i didnt, its the last ditch resort other than using it as a paper weight, why wouldnt you sell it for a profit? you could always buy another one.

Proin Drakenzol:
I've been thinking about what I want to do with it and... I still don't know!

I have no need of a NAS as there's only one of me, if I'm on either my midget computer or my laptop I'm not using the desktop so it can function as a NAS with no performance issues.

What I'd really like to do is build around it and make a UMPC or something but I don't know if that's feasible.

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