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I got a 80GB HDD laying around, it's plugged into my computer. What should I use it for?

QuantumBlink
By QuantumBlink
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Nothing else is needed for this SATA slot. However I do plan on getting an SSD soon, so I may not need to use it. 

 

Any ideas?

 

EDIT: No porn. 

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well i would say porn but 80GB of porn is such a pitiful amount that it's not even useful.

"The of and to a in is I that it for you was with on as have but be they"

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Just now, Ostwind said:

well i would say porn but 80GB of porn is such a pitiful amount that it's not even useful.

Uhh... no. 

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An 80gb capacity is likely to be quite old and therefore slow, possibly unreliable. I would not install it for both of those reasons. 

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I have an old 160gb I swap out periodically when I want to try out different linux distro's without wiping my current SSD's. If the drive fails at some point, no loss.

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no but seriously, i would use it for stuff like music. stuff you can redownload if it fails.

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It can't hold games. 

 

Just use it as an external drive for swapping pics and other files. So it does die, at least it died with almost nothing on it.

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