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why don't you want to buy spinning disks

• whyoh 4y ago
  Well, for me it's noise, power/heat and shock resistance (in laptops). And these have also indirect negative consequences. For example, an external 3.5" HDD needs an additional power supply and cable in addition to the data cable, which is cumbersome and reduces portability.
• NikolaNovak 4y ago
  Not the op, but I've just switched away from spinning disks recently. Kinda. I have a NAS of 4x 8TB WD Red Pro; and a a desktop with 4x1 TB of nvME and 1TB of (grandfathered) SATA SSD. For batch photo processing (i.e. lightroom) spinning disk is really sub-optimal. I'd rather have a 256GB or 512GB nvme and process batch by batch (and then offload to NAS), then a 8TB 7200 RPM HDD with all my photos. To OPs point - depending on shooting style, you might easily do 300GB+ over a single wedding (primary + secondary shooter, 2 cameras each, 46MP, 14-bit uncompressed, spray-and-pray style).
  • postalrat 4y ago
    I've heard but don't know if its true that SSD storage can constantly suffer data corruption if its not powered. It needs power to keep refreshing stored data. Something that maybe spinning disks don't suffer from.
    • NikolaNovak 4y ago
      I don't believe SSD loses data over arbitrarily short periods of time such as days/weeks. On the other hand, I would not trust either medium over extended period of time (years) personally - either dump to tape/optical, or keep making copies :). Either way, I currently do not have a use case where either my SSDs or HDDs would be off for year or more. (I do have a set of "off site" HDDs with my family which do stay unpowered for months before being exchanged)
• foobiekr 4y ago
  Earthquakes.