• @[email protected]
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    07 months ago

    nar. HDDs don’t require power to maintain their state. So that’s an advantage they’ll always have over SSDs, which means there will be use-cases where HDDs are the better choice.

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      7 months ago

      SSDs can reliably hold charge states for years, and there are storage media that are more reliable than HDD.

      HDD’s would still find a niche, probably, as a balanced option, but said niche will likely get smaller and smaller over many years.

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        17 months ago

        HDDs will probably always be useful for media storage, where quick access time isn’t required and it isn’t being used constantly. They should die for PCs though.

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          17 months ago

          Exactly. I haven’t used a HDD in my PC for years, yet I bought HDDs for my homelab NAS. Unless SSDs get a lot cheaper, I’ll keep buying HDDs for on-prem bulk storage.