Getting a new SSD, what to do with the old one.

[Eric McElfresh]

So, I recently received a 960GB SSD as a gift which should be arriving this week.

I plan on just making this the drive for the system and taking out my 1.5TB HDD and current 120GB SSD (Boot drive). I understand the whole thing behind read/write for SSD's and why it is better to use an SSD/HDD combo thing, but it's not something I'm worried about as I can get a few years out of a new drive easily.

Right now I'm debating / researching uses for my old SSD as I don't want it to just go to waste. I've seen several posts here and else where and they all seem to point to the same stuff; Cache Drive, Scratch Drive, secondary storage. I'm kind of hoping to find something... fun to do with it besides something like the aforementioned suggestions.

I currently do have a small home server that I use to host Minecraft, which is on a 750GB HDD but it's not something I want to deal with replacing. I could use the 120GB SSD as a swap drive for that server. (The server is Linux btw)

Is there any kind of "niche" uses or special tools I could load on it? Something... I dunno, different?

 

[Phillip Corcoran]

How about using it for for your data backups, an obvious choice you haven't mentioned?

Too many PC owners seem to ignore this important task until it's often too late.

 

[Alexander Paul]

I agree with Phililip Corcoran. Keep them for data back-ups. You'll always need one.

 

[jossrik]

I buy USB 3 to SATA cables and use extra SSDs for backup and one for installing windows 10. But that's just me.

 

[Eric McElfresh]

Well, I mean I could, that would be the responsible thing to do. However, if I were responsible, I wouldn't have $2k in debt right now. 😀