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I am a consumer, and I look not only at cost per megabyte. I also need to sleep at night while my laptop gets backed up and while my torrents get downloaded and
by patrakov 3y ago
I am a consumer, and I look not only at cost per megabyte. I also need to sleep at night while my laptop gets backed up and while my torrents get downloaded and seeded. Therefore, due to their noise, HDDs in the same room are not an option, no matter the price. For local backups and torrents (i.e. something that I can lose) I nowadays rely on an 8TB QLC SATA SSD connected to the router via USB adapter (in 2016, there was a 1.92 TB SSD), and will buy another one if it gets full.
- autoexec 3y agoI guess it's down to personal preference. The noise of data being written to a HDD is soothing like a lullaby to me. I can rest easy knowing that the hard drive is working away through the night, filling sector after sector with new surprises for me to find in the morning and carefully copying my old data keeping it safe and warm so that it's always there when I need it.
- justsomehnguy 3y ago> The noise of data being written to a HDD is soothing like a lullaby to me Username checks out. But yeah, there are a bazillion ways to store the hdd somewhere where it wouldn't be a noisense and don't care about the wear level