Do you still use regular HDD’s? Why and what for?
I have about 10 Portable 2.5" HDD’s I somehow built up over the years, plus an additional 10 2.5" HDD’s laying around that aren’t in enclosures at the moment. I’m tossing up between wiping them all and disposing of them, and buying an enclosure to use them in a NAS. 7 of them are reasonable at between 2TB and 4TB capacity. It’s just, they’re so fucking slow. Is it really worth it to keep using HDD’s in this day and age, or should I accept that their time has come and throw them out? I think I will just be dissapointed and annoyed with how slow they are if I keep them around and use them for hosting media on a plex server - But I haven’t tested them out for that so I’m not sure.
I’m leaning towards wiping and getting rid of them. Any suggestions for a use I might find for them? Are you still using a HDD? Why? What do you use it for? I feel like the time it takes for shit to load on them isn’t worth it and it just detracts to heavily from whatever I’m doing on a computer.
@datawraith I haven’t used disks in anything other than a NAS for 12 years now. Even now I’m replacing ones that fail and rebuildiing the array with a new one, just a couple months ago. Another generation of SSDs and I think I’ll be able to finally retire my NAS and move all my storage to SSD, which will be a relief tbh.
Backups and archives. Things that don’t need to be spinning all the time (though don’t leave them sitting for years and must have redundancy) and which benefit from multiple largeish cheap or free units.
I have 5 10TB WD Elements HDDs that I shucked and put inside my NAS/Seedbox. The OS is on an m.2 ssd and I have no issue streaming up to 4K videos while seeding and downloading all on the same HDD.
I had to stop myself from buying another one the other day because I really don’t need it yet. I will continue to use HDDs for my NAS until SSDs have the same capacity and price as HDDs.
But yeah HDDs are slow for more intense stuff so I have 14TB of SSDs in my main PC for gaming, development and other apps that work better with faster storage like AI
All my PCs and my old MacBook have HDDs. Three of them have HDDs because of their age (late-2000s), and my 2019 laptop has one because it’s a cheap piece of junk (at least, it was until I added more RAM and installed openSUSE).
Garnet Amethyst Pearl LapisLazuli Model HP 17-ca0003na ThinkPad T400 MacBook A1181 Acer Aspire 5742z Capacity 1TB 80GB 140GB 250GB Year 2019 2007 2007 2009 I also have a 500GB external HDD, which I use to store TV shows, movies and backups.
