16Gb SSD for $20.?

[kingdaddyrabbit]

Used and from a server. What kind and what for, i don't know. Guaranteed by local resident to be working properly.
Seems like i should buy them. He has 3. So maybe someone can let me know their thoughts on them for the price. 1 is $20. Mtron SLC NAND 16GB SSD

http://www.dpie.com/manuals/storage/mtron/MSP-SATA7035_rev0.3.pdf

[GW]

IMO the drives are not large enough to be of much use to you.  I think the biggest bang for an SSD is to hold and run the Operating System and assorted other programs.  16g isn't large enough to effectively do that.

[Linux711]

Maximum sustained read: 120MB/s

Not too fast compared to current SSDs (~230MB/s). It's only 16GB, but you said they had 3. You could potentially put them in a RAID 1, but it probably still wouldn't be worth it.

I would get two of these and put in RAID 1 for your OS and then use a standard HDD for your data.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820211478

[kingdaddyrabbit]

I have a new 60gb MLC for c: http://gskill.com/products.php?index=286
and I thought I'd use the 16 SLC in conjunction with that and the 500hdd.
I don't think I'll mind them not being in raid because I think they'd be faster for certain use than the hdd..or
perhaps 2 in raid and the 3rd separate-for 4 drives, 60-32-16-500hdd ?  (partition hdd)
Use the 3rd 16gb for a few dumpables mapped from c: like temp/tmp files, possibly pagefile, to keep it from churning on the 60 and speed a couple things up?
I'm using about 30gb for c: right now so 60gb is plenty for 7 and my prog's,,, my theary is:
reduce the programs on c: to just what starts with windows and the infrequent prog's I was going to put on hdd can go
to the 32gbR or 2 @ 16gb?-->Strategy being to spread out the reads/writes & conserve space on c and help keep it lean,
and overall performance?

Not worth the effort//$?
Thanks