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How do I use my 32 GB mSATA SSD?

HighResolution
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So I have an old laptop from 2012-2013, which I upgraded to 8 GBs of RAM several years ago. The HDD broke in 2020 and I discovered it had a 32 GB SSD on it so I installed Ubuntu on it, but now I'm going to buy a 480 GB BX500 SSD so my parents can use it for their general work. My question is what do I do with the 32 GB mSATA SSD when the 480 GB SSD arrives? Do I format it and use it as an SSD cache? (from what I've heard from old sources from 2013) or just install Windows 10 on it?

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2 minutes ago, HighResolution said:

So I have an old laptop from 2012-2013, which I upgraded to 8 GBs of RAM several years ago. The HDD broke in 2020 and I discovered it had a 32 GB SSD on it so I installed Ubuntu on it, but now I'm going to buy a 480 GB BX500 SSD so my parents can use it for their general work. My question is what do I do with the 32 GB mSATA SSD when the 480 GB SSD arrives? Do I format it and use it as an SSD cache? (from what I've heard from old sources from 2013) or just install Windows 10 on it?

Honestly, put it in a drawer. It's too old and small to be of any real use.

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Small mSATA's are usually used as Cache with a standard spinner HDD. 

You can use it as Cache with a SATA too, but you may not see that much of a performance boost 

 

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18 minutes ago, HighResolution said:

Do I format it and use it as an SSD cache?

It's probably not worth it if you have a "real" SSD in the Laptop as well. Might be nice to have as a backup drive if the main SSD fails or to use in another computer, but the cost of an adapter would likely be more than a new drive with WAY more capacity.

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On 3/26/2023 at 1:51 AM, HighResolution said:

So I have an old laptop from 2012-2013, which I upgraded to 8 GBs of RAM several years ago. The HDD broke in 2020 and I discovered it had a 32 GB SSD on it so I installed Ubuntu on it, but now I'm going to buy a 480 GB BX500 SSD so my parents can use it for their general work. My question is what do I do with the 32 GB mSATA SSD when the 480 GB SSD arrives? Do I format it and use it as an SSD cache? (from what I've heard from old sources from 2013) or just install Windows 10 on it?

i use simillar cheap small ssds as boot drives for my pfsense router (16g sata), you could use it for some home server running some flavor of linux on another host

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