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You do not actually prefer HDD, and nothing bodes badly for overclockers or laptops. You are just looking for ways to be contrarian.

EscapeFromNY 3y ago
What's wrong with HDD? It's actually quite convenient having time for your morning jog and a shower while you wait for your computer to boot up.
- pixl97 3y ago
  Nothing at all, I like to be able to count my IOPS on my fingers.
- consp 3y ago
  As a bonus and it's really old it sounds like an old gravity fed drip coffee machine. on a heat note: a spinning rustdisk also uses quite a bit of watt, every time, all the time. Powerwise the high W ssd's are still less power hungry over time.
  - pmontra 3y ago
    A 1 TB 2" HDD I attached to an Odroid consumes little more than 1 W. A 3.5" 2 TB one consumes 10 W. I turn them off by software when I don't need it. They are a backup storage.
detrites 3y ago
Preferring a storage medium for its reliability regardless of the amount of writes it endures is utility - I could see that might be preferable to SSD in some specific case. Maybe there are other upsides, eg, it's often much cheaper. Regardless, some people drive an old, dangerous, slow, gas-guzzling car - and maintain it at great expense - just because they prefer it. Aesthetic and sentimental appeal is highly personal and knows no bounds.
- seized 3y ago
  Except hard drives aren't celebrated for reliability. Or speed. Or low latency. Or durability (try knocking one). Or power and heat. Old cars you can at least make some arguments for... Hard drives as primary storage/boot, no. Really they're good for bulk storage. And that's it. For use in primary compute they're really great if you want to slow everything down.
  - hulitu 3y ago
    AFAIK compared with SSDs they are better (reliability). And running any electronic component hot is just asking for trouble.
    - justsomehnguy 3y ago
      > AFAIK compared with SSDs they are better (reliability). Depends on the price point. Just days ago PM1725 gave us trouble. Yet, five WD10JUCT I bought recently (in R5) beat it on the price and available capacity, even with abysmal performance. >any electronic component hot is just asking for trouble I'd say running too hot.
    - fuzzfactor 3y ago
      >hard drives aren't celebrated for reliability. With no revelry whatsoever my 2006 early SATA Maxtor 100GB HDD is still going strong with Windows 11 on a Dell Vista PC. Boots no slower than our IT guys have 2-year-old SSD W10 PC's doing at the office.
coldtea 3y ago
Please tell us more about the psychology of the parent commenter. You seem to have studied it quite well, or perhaps find that ad-hominems make for the best arguments!
Am4TIfIsER0ppos 3y ago
I love my HDDs. I just invested in 90TB. That would have cost me a little more than two and a half times as much and be six times as many drives. I do not have the the sata ports or the power connectors for that.

EscapeFromNY 3y ago

What's wrong with HDD? It's actually quite convenient having time for your morning jog and a shower while you wait for your computer to boot up.

pixl97 3y ago
Nothing at all, I like to be able to count my IOPS on my fingers.
consp 3y ago
As a bonus and it's really old it sounds like an old gravity fed drip coffee machine. on a heat note: a spinning rustdisk also uses quite a bit of watt, every time, all the time. Powerwise the high W ssd's are still less power hungry over time.
- pmontra 3y ago
  A 1 TB 2" HDD I attached to an Odroid consumes little more than 1 W. A 3.5" 2 TB one consumes 10 W. I turn them off by software when I don't need it. They are a backup storage.

detrites 3y ago

Preferring a storage medium for its reliability regardless of the amount of writes it endures is utility - I could see that might be preferable to SSD in some specific case. Maybe there are other upsides, eg, it's often much cheaper. Regardless, some people drive an old, dangerous, slow, gas-guzzling car - and maintain it at great expense - just because they prefer it. Aesthetic and sentimental appeal is highly personal and knows no bounds.

seized 3y ago
Except hard drives aren't celebrated for reliability. Or speed. Or low latency. Or durability (try knocking one). Or power and heat. Old cars you can at least make some arguments for... Hard drives as primary storage/boot, no. Really they're good for bulk storage. And that's it. For use in primary compute they're really great if you want to slow everything down.
- hulitu 3y ago
  AFAIK compared with SSDs they are better (reliability). And running any electronic component hot is just asking for trouble.
  - justsomehnguy 3y ago
    > AFAIK compared with SSDs they are better (reliability). Depends on the price point. Just days ago PM1725 gave us trouble. Yet, five WD10JUCT I bought recently (in R5) beat it on the price and available capacity, even with abysmal performance. >any electronic component hot is just asking for trouble I'd say running too hot.
  - fuzzfactor 3y ago
    >hard drives aren't celebrated for reliability. With no revelry whatsoever my 2006 early SATA Maxtor 100GB HDD is still going strong with Windows 11 on a Dell Vista PC. Boots no slower than our IT guys have 2-year-old SSD W10 PC's doing at the office.

coldtea 3y ago

Please tell us more about the psychology of the parent commenter. You seem to have studied it quite well, or perhaps find that ad-hominems make for the best arguments!

Am4TIfIsER0ppos 3y ago

I love my HDDs. I just invested in 90TB. That would have cost me a little more than two and a half times as much and be six times as many drives. I do not have the the sata ports or the power connectors for that.