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Interesting. I like this idea.If they don't end up as an OS drive on an older computer, I've added them to C as mounted volumes and just pointed steam at them as game drives. They typically won't show up in file explorer as drives (so they're easy to ignore) but I can still use them as steam library space.
Is the mobile drive dock USB? I thought that you can't boot from a USB drive? No? What OS?I use 2.5" mobile drive docks, I swap OS just like changing socks. No more opening up case to swap SSD.
Is the mobile drive dock USB? I thought that you can't boot from a USB drive? No? What OS?
This ... I usually put them in friends’ computers to speed them up. It always makes their day.I use them in older machines to speed them up a bit.
I’ve had every brand of hard drive and SSD die on me over the years. Hardware will eventually fail. That’s why it’s important to keep backups.I just want to mention that I had a Mushkin SSD in my wife's desktop system. Then one day it stopped, no warning of course . Then one of my friends said something like, "Dude, don't you KNOW that Mushkin is a crap brand?" No I hadn't, but every since then I worry about the service life of SSDs, particularly older models.
I just want to mention that I had a Mushkin SSD in my wife's desktop system. Then one day it stopped, no warning of course . Then one of my friends said something like, "Dude, don't you KNOW that Mushkin is a crap brand?" No I hadn't, but every since then I worry about the service life of SSDs, particularly older models.
Pretty much any brand with a Sandforce controller in it from back in the day could randomly die at any point (mushkin used sandforce controllers most of the time). Those controllers had a ridiculous failure rate and amount of bugs in their firmware. When Intel picked that controller to be their new one they didnt even use it until their firmware team went over it for a year and submitted dozens of bugfixes for firmware to make the controller stable. The 1200 and 2200 controllers had all these issues. When Sandforce finally got access to the Intel fixed firmware and came out with the 3700 series is when they finally became stable drives.I just want to mention that I had a Mushkin SSD in my wife's desktop system. Then one day it stopped, no warning of course . Then one of my friends said something like, "Dude, don't you KNOW that Mushkin is a crap brand?" No I hadn't, but every since then I worry about the service life of SSDs, particularly older models.
Harking back to a much earlier generation of technology, the first floppy disk drives were also problematic, including the media. If I remember correctly drive failure rates out of the box were like 5%, which was not acceptable even then. For contrast, the original 5 1/4" drive for Apple, with 35 data tracks, was 160 KB formatted.Pretty much any brand with a Sandforce controller in it from back in the day could randomly die at any point. Those controllers had a ridiculous failure rate and amount of bugs in their firmware. When Intel picked that controller to be their new one they didnt even use it until their firmware team went over it for a year and submitted dozens of bugfixes for firmware to make the controller stable. The 1200 and 2200 controllers had all these issues. When Sandforce finally got access to the Intel fixed firmware and came out with the 3700 series is when they finally became stable drives.
Ah the dark days of solid state drives. I remember when I got my first 32GB SSD with its SLC cache and they were still using controllers not designed for SSDs and it performed like crap in random 4k and windows would actually stutter because drive speed got so low when the minuscule cache ran out. We used to run a buffer program that would consolidate writes into sequential bursts to make Windows usable on the first couple gen SSDs.
I'm still using a 240GB OCZ Vertex 3 in my main rig. Just haven't jumped to an NVMe drive yet. When it comes out...probably just throwing it in the trash. My basic install footprint w/ OS, productivity apps, CAD, and games is over 500GB. My kids games install is approaching 1TB on their PCs.
I'd buy a new modern SSD for an external drive before wasting time/money buying an external case for it.