So uh.
While I'm now in the market. What do I even look for in a HDD any-more?
Is WD still good? 'cus these are ooooooooold now lol (Blue is the one that just went "ha ha.. HAHA UH OH :)"
Actually next question, is it worth actually sticking with a HDD anymore?
Like I've never filled this thing (was close before I got a SSD that now hosts my games)
Is it worth just getting an SSD replacement for double the cost?
Is it a good idea still to have a mechanical drive????
@DarkOverord I have SSDs in my machines and a NAS full of HDDs for bulk storage. The NAS volumes are mounted directly into the file system as "Documents", "Pictures" etc
@tryst @DarkOverord 100% seconded on running a NAS for file storage nowadays, especially one with a RAID array for redundancy.
@renbymon @DarkOverord Aye. I'm using a Synology with redundancy. If a drive fails, I can just pop a fresh one in and it will rebuild the array. There is a slight access time penalty, but on gigabit Ethernet it's only very slight and the convenience of having all my files available on every machine more than makes up for it.
@tryst @renbymon @DarkOverord they can be a bit pricy though and not for everyone
@Lazerus101 @tryst @DarkOverord That depends on if you want to buy a prebuilt NAS or if you're happy to build one yourself, and how much total storage space you need.
@Lazerus101 @tryst @DarkOverord I guess that really depends on what the budget is. If you've got an old machine (2 core x64, 8GB ram, 16gb SSD) you can press that into service as a NAS with just two identically sized NAS drives, which is where the main cost comes from.
@Lazerus101 @renbymon @DarkOverord You get what you pay for
@renbymon @tryst @DarkOverord either way they still arent exactly cheap.