• DumBirb
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    32 years ago

    Do people still have hdds in their personal systems?

    • tal
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      I do. I mean, they’re still significantly cheaper than SSDs. SSDs provide fantastic random-access time, but you don’t need that for everything. I have an SSD for several of the drives in my system, sure, but use a rotational drive to store movies. No real benefit to random access if you’re watching a movie.

    • mookman288
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      Of course. Storage space is cheaper on 7200rpm drives, and has, historically, for years. SSD is rapidly dropping in price, but it’s not on the same level, yet. Western Digital Gold 4TB is $150 USD. Crucial MX500 4TB SSD is $200.

      EDIT: SSD is also not available for large drives, 8-20TB.

      • Zana
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        12 years ago

        Yeah I got 12TB external HDD from a Best Buy sale two years for like $160. I have very slow Internet so I put a lot of my games that don’t require an SSD on that.

      • tal
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        12 years ago

        EDIT: SSD is also not available for large drives, 8-20TB.

        Though I think all of the major OSes these days provide some way to create one logical volume out of multiple physical drives. As long as your system is one that can contain multiple drives – and I understand if that’s an issue for a laptop user – you can just link together multiple SSDs to get whatever you want.

        • young_broccoli
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          32 years ago

          The mechanical drive is 70% cheaper per TB than the solid one. Thats more than “slightly better” in my book.

        • Fatbuddha
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          22 years ago

          6TB drive really isn’t a fair example, as hard drive sizes increase smaller drives aren’t produced as much if at all. That has an effect of raising the price of the remaining small drives as your customer base becomes people who need that drive like if you have a drive go bad in a raid array and want a matching drive.

          So while yes a 6TB 7200 RPM drive is $130, a 12TB 7200RPM drive is also $130.
          https://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Exos-Internal-Drive-Enterprise/dp/B07YYKKJVZ/

          • riskable
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            12 years ago

            That Seagate drive you linked to is used. Might as well throw your data away, LOL!

            • Fatbuddha
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              12 years ago

              I didn’t notice that, that’s a very valid point. Still 6tb drives aren’t the sweet spot price wise, but my example was bad.

    • lemonflavoured
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      22 years ago

      Yeah, at this point I’m not sure why you would buy a HDD, unless you specifically needed it for some odd reason.

    • hamster
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      12 years ago

      Especially if you spent over $500 for your graphics card, you might as well spend $250 for an SSD.