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Out of curiosity, I had a look at the current SSD and HDD prices available in a local e-commerce site: Capacity HDD SSD 500 GB 47 EUR 36 EUR 1
by KronisLV 4y ago
Out of curiosity, I had a look at the current SSD and HDD prices available in a local e-commerce site:
Capacity HDD SSD
500 GB 47 EUR 36 EUR
1 TB 41 EUR 49 EUR
2 TB 54 EUR 89 EUR
4 TB 77 EUR 264 EUR
8 TB 161 EUR 531 EUR
16 TB 313 EUR none
So it seems like HDDs are still more cost effective for storing larger amounts of data, as long as your workloads permit that, but for smaller capacities SSDs now reign supreme, cost wise. There's also the fact that most of these HDDs that I looked at were 3.5" but SSDs were either 2.5" or of the M.2 variety, which may or may not matter, depending on what you want to put them in.
I still think that an SSD for your boot drive is a no-brainer, but for other data storage HDDs still make sense. If the trend of affordable SSDs keeps up, that view might change in the future.
- ms512 4y agoA decent aggregator for current HDD/SSD prices is https://diskprices.com/ https://diskprices.com/ It essentially backs up the parent poster's data, just lets us navigate across a larger set of data.
- rasz 4y agoYou have to take this site with a grain of salt https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33381053 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33381053 Its been 5 months and they still list clearly fraudulent listings.
- wtallis 4y agoIt's also interesting to look at the trend over time for what capacity the price crossover point is at. Right now, it's around 1TB, but it's been moving steadily upward ever since small SSDs first started to reach "cheap" prices. Hard drive spindle motors, actuators, and clean-room assembly aren't getting cheaper, but every time flash gets denser the capacity of a cheap SSD consisting of a controller and two or four NAND dies gets bigger. When you analyze that trend in light of how many consumer use cases show little or no growth in capacity requirements over time (due to factors like cloud storage and video streaming), it's hard to see any long-term future for hard drives in consumer PCs.
- Gigachad 4y agoFor the average consumer, 1TB is more than enough storage. All of my photos, videos, and important documents added up comes out to 50GB. Everything else is just programs and games which can easily be deleted and redownloaded.
- TylerE 4y agoEven on gigabit, many AAA games are over 100GB these days. That's big enough to get annoying. My personal system has 4.5TB of SSD and 8TB of HDD (Used for backups, etc), and that sometimes doesn't always feel like enough - and I'm not even doing video editing or anything.
- Gigachad 4y agoNo one is playing triple A games on a HDD anymore though. I did the math and found it was about the same speed to redownload from steam as it was to copy a game off the HDD.
- maccard 4y agoI wish you were right. Based on the profiling data I've seen, plenty of people are... They shouldn't be, but they are.
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- imtringued 4y agoThat just means you get a 4TB SSD instead of a 2TB SSD. Hardly a reason to be concerned.
- grogenaut 4y agoSo I got a good deal at $121 for my 8tb wd iron wolf reds then
- Eisenstein 4y agoDon't forget that most all HDDs at or under 4TB not explicitly 'Pro' or 'Plus' branded are SMR, which means they have to re-write over the old tracks when the data gets dense or sustained, so they completely suck for even the typical HDD use-cases.
- ncann 4y agoThat's true, but for SSD you have to deal with TLC and QLC. Pick your poison I guess.
- _hypx 4y agoThe problem with HDDs is that they're not keeping up with Moore's Law. I remember buying an 8TB HDD years ago at nearly the same price as current 8TB HDDs. If there were 32TB and 64TB available now, the argument over HDDs and SSDs would be very different.