Found an almost new Adata SSD (128GB) for $75 and bought a 1TB Samsung USB drive on sale for $69
Yanked out my old partitioned 500GB HDD from my "frontend"...installed the OS to the SSD and copied all my media to the USB drive.
For those who have never used a SSD equipped PC...holy crap!!! It's fast!! It's as if everything is loaded into RAM already (and I feel confident I don't have to use/add any more ram than I already have...2GB)
The USB drive copies at a steady 20+MB/s and that's plenty fast enough for playback, etc.
I'm a little better off now with less noise (audible and electrically) on the PC's rails, and I can unplug the USB drive and plug it into my car to get full media access there as well when I want to...
Win-win!
Yanked out my old partitioned 500GB HDD from my "frontend"...installed the OS to the SSD and copied all my media to the USB drive.
For those who have never used a SSD equipped PC...holy crap!!! It's fast!! It's as if everything is loaded into RAM already (and I feel confident I don't have to use/add any more ram than I already have...2GB)
The USB drive copies at a steady 20+MB/s and that's plenty fast enough for playback, etc.
I'm a little better off now with less noise (audible and electrically) on the PC's rails, and I can unplug the USB drive and plug it into my car to get full media access there as well when I want to...
Win-win!