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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 s

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.