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.

#linux

  • AnEilifintChorcra
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    1 year ago

    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