What are you doing with your 60 gb and 120 gb SSDs?

[Majestic]

Hi all,

After several upgrades for clients and family I have 4 x 60 GB and 2 x 128 GB SSDs on hand. In all cases the clients simply ran out of space. This is even true when the 60 GB or 128 GBs were used as boot drives and the hard drive(s) were used just for data. I have gone through Cleanup! and also clearing old Windows Updates etc.. It never seems to be enough and we always ended up to square one. In the end I upgraded most of my clients to 500 GB SSD drives and in a few cases 256 GB.

All that said, I will probably be rebuilding new systems with these but I'm very apprehensive about it. I may even (gasp!) turn off Windows Update just to be safe and simply put in a good mixture of Anti-Virus and Anti-Malware (+Cryptoprevent) on the machines.

I'm curious about the approach you all are taking and I'm sure you've all experienced the same recently. Especially given the new Windows 10 (3GB) pushed update.

Any suggestions would be welcomed

Majestic

 

[gikstar]

Boot O/S drive for servers - use 2 - 60gb drives in raid 1
Good size for a system running PfSense

 

[A/CPC]

I've used the 128GB SSDs for system drives and certain programs only (i.e., AV, system apps, etc.). All other apps get installed to a separate App partition on an additional HDD. I also move user folders to the data partition (not entire profile). In fact, this is how my main system is set up and works fine. Running win 7 pro SP1 with all kinds of apps (system install is 2 years old) including Photoshop, Lightroom, Quickbooks, database programs, business programs, etc., all installed to app partition. My 128GB system SSD still has 62GB free.

Of course, this means a little time in setting up the other partitions, but well worth it IMO. Keeps things very organized and the clients seem to like it. And you'll get use out of your remaining inventory.

 

[sapphirescales]

Don't you even talk to your clients about their usage before you install such a small drive? On the flip side, there are many people that would be fine with a 120GB SSD. Just give those small drives to granny or other luddites that don't need to store or install much of anything and give them a nice speed boost.

 

[gikstar]

The business class Dell Latitude E7440 and E7450's, and I suspect others, (that we sell to our business clients) come standard with a 128Gb minisata ssd drive housed in a standard laptop drive slot

 

[cypress]

Re use the 120gb and throw it into an old system.

 

[pcpete]

We uses lots of 120gb new ssds all the time for repairs. It is probably our most commonly used hard drive for repairs. For lots of people it is plenty large. I would use those you have to refurbish computers.

 

[fencepost]

60GB SSDs would be fine for any *nix machines around.

120-128GB should be good for many Windows machines, particularly if they're in offices using Terminal Services or Citrix for connecting to Windows Servers, or even if they have local apps but server-side data storage.

 

[RoadRunner]

I use them to upgrade our workshop computers, the ones we use to scan for viruses/seatools and so on.

 

[BlackLabTechs]

I install them as trim tabs on my paddle boat....

 

[tucsonpc]

You could always send them my way

 

[YeOldeStonecat]

Paperweight/conversation piece on my desk.

Eh...got a couple piled up...emergency spare for little *nix firewalls.

 

[aschrades]

I use a spare 120gb SSD in a USB enclosure. Works great for transferring files around. Faster then a spinning drive. Works great for copying large PST files.