Ordered an SSD, what can I do with my old hard drive?

[zooby]

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[yjchua95]

Stick it into a USB 3 enclosure and use it as a backup drive.

 

[Fishrrman]

I second the post above.

Get an external enclosure (USB3 is best).

If you use either CarbonCopyCloner or SuperDuper, you can create a BOOTABLE backup clone of the internal drive, that will always be available as a backup booter if you get into an "I can't boot!" moment...

 

[Mik3F]

Get a Superdrive caddy and pop it in there instead of the superdrive if you don't use it

 

[Natzoo]

Use it as a backup. SSD don't live for ever too.

 

[zooby]

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[tcphoto]

As I've heard, it's not data unless it's in at least two places. I installed an SSD in my older MBP and am using the old drive for Time Machine backups. I also have four external drives paired for RAW files, edited images and documents for my freelance business. Drives can die at the worst possible time and I want two of each just in case.

 

[glenthompson]

It is a 5400 drive and I already use an external backup drive that has more GBs. Is this just to have another drive to backup data?

Use it as a CCC clone so you have a bootable backup drive.