Hi, long story short my friend claims he needs an SSD to improve his laptop and I bought one when I thought on upgrading my laptop, but ended up not needing it because I bought a new laptop for me with decent SSD.
The SSD I bought is Crucial’s MX500 2.5 SSD Sata 6Gb/s SED and all I know about his HDD is that it’s 1T of memory…
I was thinking on maybe putting the SSD on the second slot of my laptop but he claims that it would be unnecessary and an HDD would be more handy for me and he insists he needs the SSD to improve his laptop
What you guys think about this deal?
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I wouldn’t
NO, your friend its a scammer. 256 SSD> 1000 HDD
512 SSD is much better than 1000 hdd
What are you planning on putting on the second drive in your laptop? Game files? The SSD is better. Backups? The HDD is better (HDDs can be left unpowered for long periods without risking data loss and SSDs can’t) The SSD is probably worth a bit more than the HDD but neither is worth a lot anyway. If he’s going to use the SSD as a boot drive vs a HDD, that would be a big difference for him. If you have game files or other large amounts of small files, the HDD would be noticeably slower for you but not as bad as using it as a boot drive.
Is that true? Than hdd is better for backups if you leave the drive unpowered often?
Often isn’t an issue. It’s only if you take it out of the computer and put it on a shelf. Years later, the HDD should still have the data but an SSD may not.
I don’t have an specific plan for the second SSD. I just happen to have it and a laptop with two slots and thought that maybe in the future it could come handy for me. I don’t know if the second SSD will have any effect on my laptop (yes, I’m kinda that ignorant)
A 2nd drive is great. I can’t think of a case where it would cause a problem.
One thing a 2nd drive is often used for is backups. When it fills up, you can pull it out and put it on a shelf, then put in another drive and fill it up. This is pretty much the only case where a HDD is better because if you leave an SSD on a shelf for years, it can lose data.
I like to put my data on a 2nd drive. I tell myself it’s safer because the data drive will last longer since the operating system drive does lots of small writes all the time. But this is marginal. I use another SSD for this.
It sounds like your friend has a specific need for an SSD right now and you don’t. The HDD isn’t an even trade but it’s what he has. You’d be doing him a favor and it’s up to you if you want to.
A lot of good advices. Sell your SSD to your friend and use the money, save it and up to buy a 18 TB like I did for $200 on eBay for storage. 😁✌️