keep mechanical drive or ditch it

RobTi · 26 Aug 2019 at 10:24

Hi I have an old mechanical hard drive with 150Gb of data used on it but I also have a ssd as a main drive (os on m.2) with 650Gb free, so the stuff on the mechanical drive is just stuff that I cant be bothered going into the server for (music,photos). so do I just keep this for storage or ditch it and put the files on the ssd. reason is my son says the mechanical one will be slowing the pc down and why keep old hardware when I have a new ssd, any help ?
Thanks

nft_99 · 26 Aug 2019 at 11:04

ditch it! get the files on the ssd.
Took my last mechanical drive (2tb) out earlier this year replaced with a cheap kingston 480gb ssd

RobTi · 26 Aug 2019 at 11:06

nft_99 said:
ditch it! get the files on the ssd.
Took my last mechanical drive (2tb) out earlier this year replaced with a cheap kingston 480gb ssd

Thanks only needed 1 reply to convince me transferring Files atm

bledd · 26 Aug 2019 at 14:44

As long as it's not your main drive, it won't be 'slowing your system down', but it will be making it louder and hotter.

RobTi · 26 Aug 2019 at 15:35

bledd said:
As long as it's not your main drive, it won't be 'slowing your system down', but it will be making it louder and hotter.

Thanks I cleaned it out and unplugged it but left it in place as I thought a good a place as any to store it

bledd · 26 Aug 2019 at 15:36

In that case, it's just making your pc heavier

RobTi · 26 Aug 2019 at 15:37

bledd said:
In that case, it's just making your pc heavier

I can live with that

an0nym0us · 26 Aug 2019 at 16:35

bledd said:
In that case, it's just making your pc heavier

For system stability.