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Zaranthos But SSD's are still 100x better for daily use. I don't even like mechanical drives for video or backup storage unless I'm not going to power up the drive for years (SSD data loss). I've spent too much of my life waiting for data transfers. Reply
Misgar Zaranthos said: But SSD's are still 100x better for daily use. Almost, if you're referring to maximum read/write speeds. My fastest HDDs reach 250MB/s, but a Gen.5 WD SN8100 NVMe peaks at 14,900MB/s on sequential reads, so that's nearly 60x faster than my HDD. I agree booting and running Windows from HDD seems incredibly SLOW. Zaranthos said: I don't even like mechanical drives for video When I'm playing back 4K videos on my media PC, I don't notice any difference if they're on SSD or the 8TB HDD. During long 4K video transcodes, I use 3 NVMe drives to keep Windows, Scratch files and Work-in-progress files separate. But on completion, I transfer the multi Gigabyte files to hard disks in desktop PCs. Zaranthos said: or backup storage For backup storage I use four RAID-Z2 TrueNAS servers full of HDDs. For archives it's LTO cartridges, which can sometimes survive longer than hard disks. Tapes are also less susceptible than online SSDs to ransomware. N.B. I'm not running anything fancy like super expensive LTO-8 or LTO-9. With recent storage price increases, I'm far more likely to buy a new 8TB HDD than an 8TB NVMe, when upgrading a PC. Reply
abufrejoval What's funny is that just the other day I read a story in TheRegister, where they argued that the NVMe shortage was actually due to AI datacenters not being able to buy spinning rust and turning to SSDs in sheer despair! Makes little difference to consumers holding their bag, one way or another. I got all the storage and compute I'll likely need for years to come, but it still makes me very uneasy knowing that I'd not be able to afford to replace anything that fails… Reply
adamboy64 Helpful article. I was looking at a 2TB SSD the other day and it was like $250 USD equivalent. Maybe I need to lean into cloud storage more. Get the feeling my next PC will be second-hand at this rate. Reply
dynamicreflect From what I know, HDD price is also rising slowly compared with SDD. Reply
KennyRedSocks Has the pipe dream of SSD/HDD price parity finally ended? Reply
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