What to do with spare SSD

[Warfel005]

My office is upgrading all the OS drives in our computers and I'm the lucky guy that gets to keep all the lightly used SSDs (1 year old?). I think it will end up being 8 x 256g SSDs and I'm not sure what to do with them. I have an iMac at home and it would be great to use them to increase local storage capacity but I haven't found a good solution for a multiple 2.5" SATA drives DAS. I have a NAS running at home but having some fast DAS would be really beneficial. I am also inheriting an old windows tower so I could throw them in there and do a sever of sorts. Not sure what I should do or how I should do it.

Any ideas? what would you do with them?

 

[wardie]

DAS them with a TB3 RAID enclosure / JBOD + s/w RAID for some kick ass speed? If they are fast SSD drives of course. May not be worth the cost of enclosures.

Example: I’ve got one of these, although its USB3.1 gen2 not TB3 but it works well. I
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