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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.
by 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 agoNothing at all, I like to be able to count my IOPS on my fingers.
- consp 3y agoAs 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 agoA 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.