Haha I'm an idiot

[rsbennett00]

I completely forgot about these four intel 710 100gb drives I put in a home server and they sat unraided and invisible to the OS for 17,000 hours (700+ days, almost 2 years).

Now I don't know what to do with them...

 

[DesiPower]

sell them

 

[rsbennett00]

sell them

I wish, SSDs are just not selling these days. Can't imagine anyone would want small ones like this.

 

[Eeqmcsq]

Maybe keep them around for a spare PC build or something? I have 4 120GB SSDs from the last time they were on sale before the current cheapo prices we see today, and I have no idea what to do with them either.

 

[rsbennett00]

Maybe keep them around for a spare PC build or something? I have 4 120GB SSDs from the last time they were on sale before the current cheapo prices we see today, and I have no idea what to do with them either.

I have a lot of spares around and just got a bunch for my birthday that I'm trying to sell the extras of. I'll probably toss them up.

 

[aigomorla]

set them as windows temp drives

i use a 64gig X25-e as a pure windows temp storage... that way i dont hammer my main SSD.

 

[rsbennett00]

set them as windows temp drives

i use a 64gig X25-e as a pure windows temp storage... that way i dont hammer my main SSD.

As in mklink appdata\temp and %wintemp% or do you just mean the pagefile?

 

[aigomorla]

As in mklink appdata\temp and %wintemp% or do you just mean the pagefile?

all of the above..
Also your web browsers Cache foldiers

 

[Red Squirrel]

raid 5 for VMs maybe?

Or if you like to live on the edge of danger, raid 0. I would actually like to try that one day just to see how fast those VMs would be.

 

[dave_the_nerd]

raid 5 for VMs maybe?

Or if you like to live on the edge of danger, raid 0. I would actually like to try that one day just to see how fast those VMs would be.

RAID 10. Just as good, and redundant.

 

[rsbennett00]

There's a lot faster SSDs now to do that with.

 

[Ayah]

There's a lot faster SSDs now to do that with.

not many that are as reliable.

 

[ch33zw1z]

100GB SSD's will sell, depends on how much you want for them.

 

[rsbennett00]

100GB SSD's will sell, depends on how much you want for them.

Ok, I put them up for sale where I'm allowed to (not here).

 

[BonzaiDuck]

Ok, I put them up for sale where I'm allowed to (not here).

Just as well. To make a short story of my perspective on this, consider my parts-locker: I've got about five SATA III drives stashed away in case I need 'em. There are another two in eSATA external enclosures, and another five or so in hot-swap SATA caddies. I've got about six or so IDE ATA-133 drives I'm phasing out -- passing them on to friends who like fiddling with old technology.

If I had four old SSDs with plenty of life reported by SMART, I'd use them to replace another HDD or two. I might even trouble myself to sell the latter versus just giving them away.

 

[midwestfisherman]

I completely forgot about these four intel 710 100gb drives I put in a home server and they sat unraided and invisible to the OS for 17,000 hours (700+ days, almost 2 years).

Now I don't know what to do with them...

Now that's funny. I'm laughing with you not at you!

 

[2is]

Why not just use them? They may have a lot of power on hours, but no write wear to speak of. Raid 0 for a dedicated Steam/Origin library if you're a gamer.

 

[StinkyPinky]

I wish I had enough money to forget about four SSD's

 

[rsbennett00]

Why not just use them? They may have a lot of power on hours, but no write wear to speak of. Raid 0 for a dedicated Steam/Origin library if you're a gamer.

I have 840 pros for that.

I agree these are practically brand new out of the box, the power on hours doesn't matter at all.

 

[rsbennett00]

I wish I had enough money to forget about four SSD's

Two years ago, work was rocking good so yeah I had some spending cash but since then, I'm lucky to get 2 gigs a week and I'm 2 weeks behind on rent.