Are Hard Drives Still Worth It?

i hagw my sea gate i drop it 4tb and it died on me my data is LOST!

ok emily

HDD will cease to exist within the decade

I use my HDD for mass storage, but my SSD will always be my mains in my system
There was a time I was all SSD, but turning my computer on and not hearing HDD motor spin
was unnatural. Even if it isn't doing anything, you should have at least 1 in your rig. Just for that start up sound

I STILL USING 2TB TOSHIBA HDD FOR THE PAST 3 YEARS WHICH MAKES CRACKING SOUND BUT STILL RUNS PERECT :)

Here I’ll save you the time, yes they are

How many DAMN commercials are they packing into these LTT videos now? so far I counted 4. INSANE

Games are getting huge and plenty by the day. However with everything on the cloud these days I have been able to avoid filling up my 4 tb drive. I've had 4 ssds fail on me within a few years so I'm definitely not storing my precious data on there. Gaming and having a compact pc are the only use cases for me.

Its too bad the IT pros are still recommending HDD's for durability, and longevity, isn't it, solid state fanbouy?

I got a laptop that only has m.2 ssd ports, cant upgrade storage through a cheap hard disk and had to go with a expensive m.2

i still have an HDD and SSD from 2017 and I looked at the new drives and they are like 30-60 bucks WTF I'm missing out

Gee, two years later from this video and those m.2 nvme SSD cards run so fast that sata SSD’s look slow and the price for either of them keeps dropping and performance and duration keeps increasing.

I'm currently doing a 2TB Nvme, and 4x 640GB Barracuda's... plus about 70TB external USB 3 stuff. But internally, as listed. You? I'm interested to learn what other people are using.... on a home system - work pcs dont really count...

15tb SSDs are under $2500 now.
Wooo! /s

I use HDD's in the same capacity you use flash drives.

They give you space and they cheap ,I use them to store large files like video and games and whatnot.

I have an external 2 tb hard drive I’ve been using for pretty much over 5 years straight. It’s probably slower but it’s been reliable and hell. I’ve dropped it countless times while it was running and it still works. I would definitely only purchase solid state drives these days

Yes

My folks still use hdds around the house, my semi new rig however doesn't have any spinning media. Its not even the response times for me, its the random noises they make. As a noise freak, those sounds trigger me to no end. I have a 1tb nvme for my main linux distro, older 256gb nvme for the occasional windows escapade and a 480gb sata for backups.

if you need high storage it is soooooooooooooooooooooooo much cheaper to go with hdd 8tb ssd is the same price with 3 or 4 8tb hdd if you need the speed 1tb ssd is the same price

I wonder how many things they got wrong?

I understand what he is saying, but i thought SSDs don't last as long as hard drives. Can someone please elaborate on this?

so i’m thinking of making my first pc build which i’m mainly using for gaming but occasionally college assignments, i’ve planned on getting a M.2 ssd to store games but do i get an SSD or HDD aswell for college work?

I love salvaging smol hdd’s from old laptops, specially when my fathers’ broke down. I dont know how but I fixed it

When I switched to an SSD... It was mind blowing how faster it was! Besides a sever.. which even then I think it would transfer slower, because of the hard drive, this things... Sorry to say but for me and for most are not worth he hassle anymore. Especially SSDs getting cheaper!

So glad we're moving away from HDD garbage

When I wrote my first lines of code: We had the commodore pc1. That thing did not even have a hard drive. For extra storage we bought an external floppy drive so we could use 3,5 inch floppies, that could store so much more.....
Fast forward to 2023: I still use harddrives for storing the large stuff. I like the WD ultrastar ones. Very reliable and still kind of affordable. And on my proliant homelab I even boot from hdd's.
Who else is still rocking some hdd storage?

Try this: Put a mechanical HD and a SSD with no power on a shelf for 5+ years. I have done it for 10+years. All my mechanical HDs worked even ones from 1995. The 3-5 SSDs did not. They could be reformatted and used but left with no power they degrade. So for long term storage don't put a SSD on a shelf with no power, they don't hold data as well as old fashion but more reliable spinning Hard drives.

Seagate laid off a shit ton of employees to accommodate

Anthony is embracing his inner Linus)

Nvme is smaller (like half the size of a hdd, and as flat as 4 pieces of paper stacked on top of eachother) , only about $10 more without heatsinks and much faster

you sit through one defragmentation ,you will never want to use hard drive again

I mean it is cheaper but like the price is not even that different.....I got a 1b samsung ssd for 50 bucks and 1 tb hdd is like what? 40 bucks......it's literally just 10 dollars and you get a faster and better drive.

What I do nowadays (at least for the last 5+ years) I keep a nvme drive for C drive and a couple of fast samsung sata SSD for games and work and a large 7200rpm HDD for storage.

Stop putting your merch in the video its really annoying just mention it once don't bump advertising in while expanding something

This was such an informative video. I’m in the process of shopping for a new system and am set on everything, BUT the whole ‘Do I include a HDD?’ of it all. I was going to have 3 SSDs. But a friend was like, ‘maybe one of those should be a HDD’. And I was like ‘Hmm... Maybe it should.’ And now I’m here.

I feel a hdd is still needed. Great for data storage. If kept in the correct environment they can last a very long time. To bad about the read and write limitations of the ssd. As tech improves, we want faster. Back in the late 90s, a 1.6 gig hdd costed 100 plus dollars. I found that drive and it still works. Hdd work great for archiving.

Problem with hdd is that the sata connector will be soon worn out because of the vibration and you can't reverse the process.The only way to fix is solder which i have done successfully but it requires years of experience.

WHY IS NO ONE TALKING ABOUT DATA LOSS IN SSD VS HARD DISK?

What about backup for your desktop? cloud or an internal HDD.

I have a hard drive because you can hear when it's guna fail. SSD just randomly stops working...

when u spend 1/3 memory of SSD, he will say u "bye-bye". (if not - u took too expensive ssd)
At the same time HDD will have 200-220 read/write speed always (if 7200 rpm). Which means Raid better do on HDD
Random write speed is not taken into account - large amounts of data have other tasks (Mostly)

even 2 years after, an 8Tb hdd costs the same as a 2Tb ssd here in italy

SSDs are not suitable for long term ext storage,
Old HDDs were able to last forever, new ones, it seems that producers deliberately make lifespan of those no more than 3 yrs, dilemma

1 video 5 ads, you kidding us

What about using an HDD vs SSD for a CCTV camera system? SSDs can't tolerate too many write cycles, unlike HDDs. Or does this difference just mean that an HDD will last you, say, 10 years, while an SSD will "only" last you 8, or something similar?

16tb hdd.. costs under 250, 16tb ssd...

SSDs have gotten even cheaper. Just got an external one 64tb for 100$ cause I'm pretty sure my HHD is on the end of it's legs.