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|    Paul to Brian Gregory    |
|    Re: Convert HDD to SSD    |
|    10 May 25 21:54:09    |
      From: nospam@needed.invalid              On Sat, 5/10/2025 4:27 PM, Brian Gregory wrote:       > On 06/05/2025 00:38, CtrlAltDel wrote:       >> Let me explain. I bought a Dell XPS about 12 years ago and it had a TB HDD       >> drive. Since that time, I've added 2 more 1TB HDD's to the box. So,       >> that's three perfectly fine HDD's that still work great that I don't want       >> to just trash.       >>       >> But, I do want to convert them to SDD's so that I can gain a little bit of       >> speed using common programs. In other words, I would prefer not to have to       >> purchase any new product, only convert what I currently have.       >       > You might be able to replace them with SSDs.       >       > You could probably also copy the contents of the HDDs on to the new SSDs       that you are going to put in instead.       >       > But convert them into SSDs? I'm finding it hard to imagine what you are       thinking of in this case.       >              You can make a RAID0 array of an arbitrary number of HDD       to make a higher sequential speed. But this is mostly for       making pretty benchmarks, and is not particularly practical.               Paul              --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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