What to do with a spare 240GB NVMe (installed)?

[sswilson]

So.......

I got the aftermarket NVMe install bracket for the second port on this dell laptop and I've installed the WD 530 back into the laptop. It's mostly because I don't have any obvious use for it (too small for external backup, and I've already got a 128GB NVMe as an external USB drive) so I figured I might as well have it installed on the off chance that I have to send the laptop back in for RMA.

The main drive is a 1TB XPG and it's currently sitting @ about 66% free space with everything I use already on the laptop so I don't really need to move anything over to it (it'd be cramped with the current 170GB OneDrive files).

Anybody have any ideas on what to do with it? Any cool dual boot options out there for something like that I might want to consider? How about some form of VM?

Thoughts?

 

[crazyea]

What I always do with my second drive is move my user folders off of the main and onto the secondary. Make fresh installs easy if need be.

 

[Bond007]

Dedicate to one thing…games, or user folders (per crazyea), any specific apps you have that may have a lot of write cycles (save the wear and tear on the xpg drive), movie/video/photo storage (if you don’t just stream everything)…I can’t really think of anything “fun”.

 

[sswilson]

What I always do with my second drive is move my user folders off of the main and onto the secondary. Make fresh installs easy if need be.

Dedicate to one thing…games, or user folders (per crazyea), any specific apps you have that may have a lot of write cycles (save the wear and tear on the xpg drive), movie/video/photo storage (if you don’t just stream everything)…I can’t really think of anything “fun”.

I thought about moving onedrive (which includes my docs / photos / music) but that runs somewhere around 170GB which would have the drive somewhere close to 2/3s full. I suppose that's not terrible and it still leaves me 60GB+ room for my photo collection to grow. (Really have to stay on top of deleting BST and Build photos when I'm no longer using them... ).

That's probably the route I'm going to go... I just wish Onedrive had a "move" function. As it stands I have to de-link the account and start over in order to put it on a different drive.

 

[Shadowmeph]

Dedicate to one thing…games, or user folders (per crazyea), any specific apps you have that may have a lot of write cycles (save the wear and tear on the xpg drive), movie/video/photo storage (if you don’t just stream everything)…I can’t really think of anything “fun”.

I am not sure it would be large enough for games .
I would use it for things like DOcs pics things like that

 

[crazyea]

Other suggestions.

- Move page file to second drive.
- Use for downloads only (ie-torrents)

 

[Solace]

Torrenting/VM drive to alleviate writes occurring in parallel. Ram disk seems useless these days for most cases. Or just go backup vital files.

 

[lcdguy]

could always use it as a scratch/temp drive for things like video recording.

 

[Marzipan]

collect more and then use one of those multi-drive RAID cards and make a blazing fast storage array?

no real purpose, but at least good for some gits n shiggles.

 

[sswilson]

Heh... well so far the only thing I've done with it is move my downloads folder, and create a temp folder.

That's taking up 1% of the available space....