What to do with a spare X25-M G1

[Vapor]

So I'm moving from a laptop back to a desktop as my primary rig for the first time in a few years and I have a bit of a conundrum.

In my desktop I'm doing RAID0 of 2x 50GB Vertex 2s and my laptop currently has an 80GB X25-M G1. But the task my laptop is going to be relegated to requires a slightly bigger HDD, so I'm going to get a Barracuda XT for the laptop, leaving me with a 'spare' X25-M G1.

Any sense in putting it in my desktop and throwing the pagefile on it? Scratch drive for Adobe CS apps? Use it as my storage drive for my most accessed files? Any uses you guys can think of?

Or should I sell it and put that money elsewhere into the system? Is there even a market for these considering there's no TRIM?

[GullLars]

You could use it for games, if you play any. It should give quicker load times, and could help minimum FPS if there's textures loading ingame.
Using it for pagefile makes little sense, unless you NEED 10GB+ of "slow" virtual RAM in addition to your current RAM.
You could use it for your most accessed files and scratch drive, but there's really not much to be gained compared to the cost of the storage. The 80MB/s write is a bit slow for a scratch disk.
You could also give put it in the main computer of a friend or relative, or sell it. The x25-M G1 drives are still great for RAID, since there's no TRIM anyway, and they perform about the same as G2. If you sell it you could expect perhaps $150

[WhiteFireDragon]

put it in any computer with XP, vista, or linux since G1 or G2 won't matter on these OS. otherwise, turn it into a super quick external storage. that's more useful than dedicated page file.

[lowfat]

If you have no real use for it, I would just sell it.

[GullLars]

Lowfat, check out the FastPath thread, there are some people who'd like an IOmeter config run from your ioXtreme for comparison to extreme 8R0 SSD setups.

[Vapor]

You could use it for games, if you play any. It should give quicker load times, and could help minimum FPS if there's textures loading ingame.
Using it for pagefile makes little sense, unless you NEED 10GB+ of "slow" virtual RAM in addition to your current RAM.
You could use it for your most accessed files and scratch drive, but there's really not much to be gained compared to the cost of the storage. The 80MB/s write is a bit slow for a scratch disk.
You could also give put it in the main computer of a friend or relative, or sell it. The x25-M G1 drives are still great for RAID, since there's no TRIM anyway, and they perform about the same as G2. If you sell it you could expect perhaps $150

Games are a really good idea....shame I don't play

Looks like scratch/etc. disk is out....so either I use it as a dual boot OS X drive or sell it and put that money toward a third Vertex2 (I could use the extra 45GB on my boot drive more than I could use the extra speed).

Thanks for the help guys

[AceNZ]

You could install apps on it. When starting an app, Windows will issue parallel reads if the DLLs needed to start an app reside on different devices, so you could get improve app start times. You might also use it as a working area instead of your Desktop or My Documents.

Don't worry about TRIM. Any SSD that's in a RAID setup doesn't have TRIM available, either. Plus, it's only useful on drives that are heavily written.

[tool_462]

I'll PM you my address, I can make use of it

[Vapor]

You could install apps on it. When starting an app, Windows will issue parallel reads if the DLLs needed to start an app reside on different devices, so you could get improve app start times. You might also use it as a working area instead of your Desktop or My Documents.

Don't worry about TRIM. Any SSD that's in a RAID setup doesn't have TRIM available, either. Plus, it's only useful on drives that are heavily written.

Liking the working area idea....Win7 makes that very easy with the definable libraries too.

Oh the joys of having multiple HDDs in a system again

[Biker]

Liking the working area idea....Win7 makes that very easy with the definable libraries too.

Oh the joys of having multiple HDDs in a system again

Show off

[Vapor]

I'm using a NAS via wifi-N as my 'storage' drive right now if that makes you feel any better

[Biker]

Let's be honest here:

Not really!

[skid00skid00]

Gee, I guess when I got two G1's, one for OS, one for all the page/swap/cache files, I was being stupid...
Not! Two channels, guys.

[mbreslin]

Vapor: Don't feel bad I have an x25-v and 3 256g c300s without a real use!