Question Who still uses these....

[SPECOPS70]

Hello all.

Just trying to get an idea.

How many here still use HDD's? Prices on M.2s have come down big time.

I myself have an HDD Black in my current gaming rig for storage. I have 3 m.2s in there as well.

 

[punkncat]

I still use HDD for data storage and backups. I don't use them in my daily driver systems anymore.

 

[Lafong]

I do for backups only.

The backup drive is written to or read from maybe 5 minutes a day. Speed is of little concern.

Even if price was identical, I might stick with HDD for backups due to the occasional warning I see about SSDs possibly having limitations when it comes to long-term storage.

 

[pcbuilder777]

I have one that I moved over from my 13 year old PC. I ran a health check on it and it has all green dots and one yellow dot for a current pending sector count 100. I assume that means I should replace it? I don't have important data on it.

 

[Lafong]

As I recall "current pending sector count" is particularly important and more of a warning sign than most of the others.

If you don't care about what is on it, I guess no need to replace it. Otherwise, yes.

 

[USAFRet]

11 of the 12 drives in or attached to my NAS are HDD.
1 is a 480GB SATA III for the system drive.

The others will remain spinners. Replacing near 100TB with SATA SSD is around $5k. Not happening.

All the actual PCs are SSD only, have been for several years.

 

[BrickStation]

Up until recently, I had been using a WD Blue 1TB drive in my Windows PC for storage. Just a few years ago, I was using it for gaming and ran Windows 10 on it.

I primarily use mechanical drives for storage and backups. When I need to do something on my second PC, I use a spare HDD running with some Linux distro.

 

[SPECOPS70]

Agreed. I use the black for storage and some older games. I can hear the reading needle everytime I power up my comp though. Got used to it but a bit annoying. lol

 

[Misgar]

I have loads of HDDs scattered across tower systems and backup servers.

As of 2024 Quarter 3, Backblaze had at least 288,076 hard disks.

Goodness knows how many millions of drives Google, Microsoft, Amazon, etc., have in their datacentres. Of course some of them will be SSDs.

Forget 8TB. Get a 128TB Phison Pascari D205V SSD.

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-com...-3-million-iops-and-14-600-mb-s-with-pcie-5-0

 

[faalin]

I use 2 Western Digital Red Pro 18TB & 1 6TB in my computer
3 Western Digital Red Pro 18TB + 1 512GB SSD in my backup server
3 Western Digital Red Pro 6TB + 1 512GB SSD in my main server
4 8TB Seagate Ironwolfs in my NVR

 

[DRagor]

Had HDD as only drive till last week but made a new build last Sunday and could no longer make any excuses as the last caveman 😀

 

[drjohnnyfever]

I still have all my music movies and pictures on HDD's. I was considering, little by little, converting to SSD, but then read they aren't recommended for long term storage. I don't have any issues with the 12TB Toshiba and a 10TB WD that I use. The 10TB just sits there without power and the 12TB I use to serve movies and music across the other PC's in our home network. It ain't broke so I'm gonna leave it be. 😉 But I do not have any PC's or laptops anymore where the OS in on a mechanical drive.

 

[USAFRet]

but then read they aren't recommended for long term storage.

That would be "long term unpowered storage".