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For what do you want to use a 4TB SSD? I have a 64 GB SSD, now for 5 years and a second 500 GB HDD for data (which is half empty). I cannot imagine I would nee

For what do you want to use a 4TB SSD? I have a 64 GB SSD, now for 5 years and a second 500 GB HDD for data (which is half empty). I cannot imagine I would need more.

ascorbic 11y ago
If you're working with uncompressed video it doesn't take much to use a terabyte, and the faster the drive the better.
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puranjay 11y ago
Video is crazy huge. 4K video takes up an incredible amount of disk space.
cm2187 11y ago
My mp3/flac library alone is like 150GB. The system and applications needs 150-200GB (page file and hyberbation alone consume 32GB if you have 16GB RAM). Then if you want to keep a few films on your laptop for when you travel you easily use 1TB.
- odabaxok 11y ago
  But why do you need an SSD for music and video? Is not the speed of a HDD enough for this kind of things? (On a side note.. I have both the page file and hibernation disabled.)
  - cm2187 11y ago
    You can't really fit many drives in an ultra-book laptop. Yes I could use a HDD for that but I'd rather not have any HD in a laptop (because of noise, resistance to shocks, reliability and power consumption) and I want my system, programs and non multimedia data to be on SSD for speed and performance consistency over time.
    - odabaxok 11y ago
      I am still not convinced, I still feel like an 4 TB SSD is an overkill for a laptop (or my use-cases are really different from yours). Noise? Reliability? HDDs are getting better at these things too, I have never had problems with that. Power consumption? It consumes zero power, when you do not access your multimedia data. Resistance to shocks? Yeah, that is a thing for HDDs, but it must be a really hard shock (also it has to run), if you want to hurt it. EDIT: I do not want to sound like I am against you or against the SSDs. SSDs are awesome! I just feel like the correct tools should be used for the correct tasks and I am just curious what is the purpose of an 4 TB SSD, because it somehow does not fill into my use-cases (again, I use the same 64 GB SSD for 5 years now and I feel like I will never need nothing bigger, if Windows installation does not get dramatically bigger in the future).
      - cm2187 11y ago
        Interestingly, on reliability, I have read many stories about SSDs failing but I never experienced one myself. Something I cannot say of HDD. I typically use Intel and Samsung SSDs, and desktop and consumer NAS HDD.
SixSigma 11y ago
GTA 5 is 60Gb of disk space, Fallout4 is 30Gb, Call of Duty: Ghosts 40Gb etc.
theandrewbailey 11y ago
Fewer moving parts (less power, heat, etc) than your setup. Use less/no cloud storage (laptops often go where clouds don't). Mid and high end SSDs have full disk encryption (OPAL) by default, and 4TB sounds very high end to me.

For what do you want to use a 4TB SSD? I have a 64 GB SSD, now for 5 years and a second 500 GB HDD for data (which is half empty). I cannot imagine I would need more.

ascorbic 11y ago

If you're working with uncompressed video it doesn't take much to use a terabyte, and the faster the drive the better.

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puranjay 11y ago

Video is crazy huge. 4K video takes up an incredible amount of disk space.

cm2187 11y ago

My mp3/flac library alone is like 150GB. The system and applications needs 150-200GB (page file and hyberbation alone consume 32GB if you have 16GB RAM). Then if you want to keep a few films on your laptop for when you travel you easily use 1TB.

odabaxok 11y ago
But why do you need an SSD for music and video? Is not the speed of a HDD enough for this kind of things? (On a side note.. I have both the page file and hibernation disabled.)
- cm2187 11y ago
  You can't really fit many drives in an ultra-book laptop. Yes I could use a HDD for that but I'd rather not have any HD in a laptop (because of noise, resistance to shocks, reliability and power consumption) and I want my system, programs and non multimedia data to be on SSD for speed and performance consistency over time.
  - odabaxok 11y ago
    I am still not convinced, I still feel like an 4 TB SSD is an overkill for a laptop (or my use-cases are really different from yours). Noise? Reliability? HDDs are getting better at these things too, I have never had problems with that. Power consumption? It consumes zero power, when you do not access your multimedia data. Resistance to shocks? Yeah, that is a thing for HDDs, but it must be a really hard shock (also it has to run), if you want to hurt it. EDIT: I do not want to sound like I am against you or against the SSDs. SSDs are awesome! I just feel like the correct tools should be used for the correct tasks and I am just curious what is the purpose of an 4 TB SSD, because it somehow does not fill into my use-cases (again, I use the same 64 GB SSD for 5 years now and I feel like I will never need nothing bigger, if Windows installation does not get dramatically bigger in the future).
    - cm2187 11y ago
      Interestingly, on reliability, I have read many stories about SSDs failing but I never experienced one myself. Something I cannot say of HDD. I typically use Intel and Samsung SSDs, and desktop and consumer NAS HDD.

SixSigma 11y ago

GTA 5 is 60Gb of disk space, Fallout4 is 30Gb, Call of Duty: Ghosts 40Gb etc.

theandrewbailey 11y ago

Fewer moving parts (less power, heat, etc) than your setup. Use less/no cloud storage (laptops often go where clouds don't). Mid and high end SSDs have full disk encryption (OPAL) by default, and 4TB sounds very high end to me.