what can a 60GB SSd be used for

Tomorrow I am going to update a work colleague computer, swapping the 60GB SSD to a 240GB SSD, more space and faster. Then updating his Windows 7 to Windows 10 ( oh good grief).

Anyway, I will be leaving the 60GB in as a second drive, but was wondering what on earth could it be used for? The machine is a gaming machine more than anything else.

Paging space, scratch space, archive, I use a small 20gb drive to archive programs I might need in the future.

Plug it into another machine that hasn't got an SSD?

Belay that. Since it is a gaming machine, it must be his own. Tell him that it's not much use and suggest that he sell it?

Edited by micksharpe (Sat 23-Jan-16 03:20:01)

Not worth selling Mick, anything under half a gig is only handy for backing up files these days and he'd only get a few quid if he or she tried to flog it.

In reply to a post by Banger:

Paging space, scratch space, archive, I use a small 20gb drive to archive programs I might need in the future.

Paging space could be a good idea, since he only play games on it I doubt it would be used as a scratch drive.

I do not even know what this computer looks like, I know it is a I5, with some pretty decent video card in and lots of memory, with at least one SSD in.

I will leave the old drive in anyway as it is a tower there is plenty of space for it.

In reply to a post by micksharpe:

Plug it into another machine that hasn't got an SSD?

Belay that. Since it is a gaming machine, it must be his own. Tell him that it's not much use and suggest that he sell it?

Only one machine they got as far as I know, not worth selling, I doubt they would get a tenner for it, sad really since it cost them £160 when new. Just shows how technology have changed, that is how much I paid for my 120GB more or less 3.5 years back, now and I paid less than £100 for my 420GB corsair a couple of weeks back

Using it for the paging file (and any temporary files) is a good idea. You might as well flog the old drive to death.

Main drive image backups.

In reply to a post by micksharpe:

Using it for the paging file (and any temporary files) is a good idea. You might as well flog the old drive to death.

I got to find out in Windows 10 where the paging file settings are, since they mucked the control panel up, but it seems a good idea.

I think to be honest I may also take some hard drive monitor software with me, i need to know how much life the old drive have left,

In reply to a post by camieabz:

Main drive image backups.

Apart from the fact the drive replacing it is larger, it could have been a good idea. they have got a 3TB external drive for backups anyway so I have been told.

Just making sure I got what I need, including some screws for the drive, just in case it is needed. I know they ordered a converter so the drive will fit into their case, not sure if they will need it or not as I have no idea what is inside their case, nor do they Also a spare sata cable, just in case. Their computer was built by some company on line, so I have no idea what they left or took out of the case/motherboard box.

Going to use Macirum reflect to do the cloning unless someone have A better idea before I go, be leaving here about 1 ish as I am meeting someone for a coffee first.

I found it worked fine on mine to clone from the 120 to the 240, after I found out how to expand the partition with it

My only worry is the update of windows 10, i was going to download it here and stick it on a disk, but it don't come up with OEm on the options, just Windows 10, Windows 10 home single Langage and Windows 10 n

In reply to a post by zyborg47:

I got to find out in Windows 10 where the paging file settings are, since they mucked the control panel up, but it seems a good idea.

They're in exaqctly the same place on Windows 10 as in any other version of Windows. Control Panel is almost identical to Control Panel in earlier versions of Windows.

We did not bother after anyway, He will use the drive for a few games if he runs out of space on the new drive.

We did not get the time to update to Windows 10,k i left it downloading and he will update when it have downloaded, he is capable of doing that.

Things did not go as planned, His graphics card for some reason stopped me going into the bios, the only way was to take the video card out and use the one built into the CPU. Then the thing would not keep the new drive as a boot drive. I got that sorted out eventually, then thought about updating the bios as it may sort the video card problem out, as the computer took over a minute to get away from the post screen and then eventually boot into windows.
The bios update solved the problem, was able to get into the bios and the computer took seconds to boot into Windows 7.

He said it have been like that since he got the new video card, so some compatibility problem somewhere along the line that the bios update solved.
Also done some stuff in the registry to get the machine to boot on AHCI, why overclockers did not set that up to start with I do not know.

Also took a while to clean the machine, dust was so thick in it you could not see the back of the power supply or the main board.

Anyway, machine is now running nice and smooth, I just hope windows 10 updates ok.
I lost my USB stick, which is annoying, I think I lost it in town.