What to do with an "old" SSD?

Hello everyone,

Just wondering what everyone's thoughts are what I should do with my "old" SSD. To go along with a new system I'm getting an Crucial M4 or Samsung 830.

So now what to do with my 256GB Crucial M225? It has about 77% health left back on it. I'm not sure if putting both SSDs in the new system would be a good idea. It would be enough space but I do a fair bit of moving around media in my daily usages, might be pushing it towards the write limit faster than it needs to be.

What do you think its resale value would even be?

I could also put it in a family computer but I'm not real sure if they would treat it well, especially since I routinely (maybe once a year) need to reinstall OS on their computers due to massive amounts of random bloatware installed and viruses/spyware from who knows where.

Any thoughts?

 

Well if the price is right, I'd seriously consider it taking it off your hands.

Erm... I remember when they came out, they were around $500 USD. Now that they're "old" technology and it's at three-quarters health, maybe $150-$200. Maybe more depending on how much warranty is left on it.

I got a brand new OCZ Vertex LE 240GB for $250 during that one sale from MDD, if you want possible ideas on relative value.

 

writes should not be an issue per se. stuff like reinstalling the os once a year has no impact on writes. or using it as a datadrive declares it to have no issue with writes. writes start to matter in the multiple ten gigabytes per day, EVERY DAY.

 

Give/sell it to me

 

Hmmm, looks like I'm just going to sell it and maybe use the money towards an mSATA or just reduce the cost of the new SSD.

Tentatively sold to Forge.

 

Another thing you might do is replace your Seagate with it and have TWO SSD drives in your system. The new one as your OS drive and your older for games, etc. If you think your system is fast now...put two SSD's in it and watch it fly!!! That is my plan for my Intel 320 series down the road...move it to D and replace it with Samsung 830 as OS drive

 

I considered it, still am a bit but on my D I like to keep about 100-120GB of games, 70GB of music, and 75-100GB of movies/tv. I suppose I could cut down on that a lot, it's sort of uneccessary. But that's where I like to have the suchion of a 500GB drive

 

Instaloading on games is the reason why i kept BF3 on my SSD.
You could perhaps get a inexpensive external HDD to store extra data on + Steam backups?
Unless you want access to it all the time.

 

Hmmm interesting thought. I've got lots of exteral storage (about 7TB) that I could put steam backups on instead of lugging around games on my laptop that I'm not playing at the time.

I normally keep just a few games like SC2 on the SSD, and the hybrid picks up pretty quick when I start to play a game a lot and gets to instaloading things after a day or two of playing a game.