> wouldn't kill HDD's overnight What's killing HDDs for me - looking at desktop use - is noise. Seems it got weirder lately, with wear-levelling ringing in eve

> wouldn't kill HDD's overnight What's killing HDDs for me - looking at desktop use - is noise. Seems it got weirder lately, with wear-levelling ringing in every five seconds, etc. Today I just "rebuilt" a brand new HP box by adding RAM and swapping the original 512 GB M2 SSD for a 2 TB one (Crucial P5 Plus, nice specs). Thinking of adding a 6 or 8 TB HDD for data landfill, but most any customer review mentions aggravating disk noise. So, holding off the landfill for a while, peering at SATA SSD prices ...