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> 1. Mechanical hard drives. These have become a bit more niche No, they're still pretty mainstream. When someone runs out of disk space (e.g. with media files

> 1. Mechanical hard drives. These have become a bit more niche No, they're still pretty mainstream. When someone runs out of disk space (e.g. with media files), they tend to buy a large HDD (whether external or internal), not a second SSD. So, your point about HDDs is even stronger, and the author's son will definitely get one.

einpoklum 6y ago
... to put some numbers on this: * In 2020, non-enterprise sales were 330 Million SSD units, 260 Million HDD. * In 2020, non-enterprise users bought 5 times more capacity on HDDs than on SSDs. https://www.pcgamer.com/fun-fact-ssds-outsold-hdds-last-year-but-not-in-total-capacity/ https://www.pcgamer.com/fun-fact-ssds-outsold-hdds-last-year...