Anyone went strictly to SSDs only yet ?

[River]

Is it worth doing?

I feel like I am missing out by not.

Just tried SSD to SSD and even SSD or portable SSD.

The speed is incredible compared to Hard Drive 7200 rpm to SSD.



Only normal hard drives 7200 rpm I have right now are my 2 data drives. One 4 TB SATA 7200 rpm for primary data and the other portable 4 TB Hard Drive for backup of it.

Everything else is a NVMe SSD.

[JC]

I use both, HDD and SDD. There are plenty of games i own that run just fine on an HDD that don't have load times other than the 30 second or so start up. On contrary to popular belief many games don't benefit in the least from an SSD outside of a slightly quicker launch time. Of course some newer ones do, but unless you just bought your first game yesterday, tons of folks have games 20+ years old that have no need to be on an SSD.

I also like them for larger storage and things that don't need to be accessed. for instance music and video/picture libraries and they also run just fine off an HDD as well, especially if your doing vid recording of games, you can fill up 10TB in no time. It's also a good idea to back up that HDD with a second just in case if you have a ton of files that you only have the one copy. You could of course go with a cloud, but then someone else has your stuff. I'd much rather have my own private files on my own hdd and if i need to do a full transfer i can always do it when i'm not, or at night or what ever. Some folks even use offline systems for sensitive stuff for security reasons so in those cases they typically are running HDD's as they are comps for a specific purpose.

I don't see myself going with out at least one hdd into a system any time the next bunch of years unless something drastic changes. My builds also have a DVD player too, though it rarely get's used but it's nice to beable to pop in a disk and rip it at whim with out digging around for a portable drive. My Focus G case still leaves plenty of room for a full radiator on the front and i have a removable bay as well if i want it.

[Illusion of Progress]

The above is me (minus the optical drive, which I also had until 2020 or so but I just never used it basically at all for like the last decade and it stopped opening most of the time so I finally just got rid of it).

I went to an SSD for my system drive in 2012 and would never go back for that.

But SSDs aren't a good option for me when it comes to storage. Sure, if you're either financially secure enough or have low enough storage needs (this is most people these days), then doing away with HDDs entirely is fine. But if you have high storage needs, SSDs is purely a luxury that isn't cost effective for me. Most storage roles don't need the speed anyway (even if it's still obviously there and nice to have), and would cost many times over what HDDs would, and that adds up quick if your capacity needs are higher/consisting of multiple drives.

For those mentioning NAS, if they involve HDDs, that's not going strictly to SSDs. It moves the HDDs out of your primary system sure, but you're still relying on them.

For the foreseeable future, I'll probably have at least a pair of HDDs (one for the actual files/storage, and another for the backup/redundancy).

A third one I have might be the one of the bunch that I can do away with in the somewhat foreseeable future, but even that I'm no rush to drop (maybe if it was the only one I had left, then I might have already done so). I have a 5 TB HDD for games (got it very early 2016 so it wasn't a recent purchase or anything), but I can always move any games of my choosing to one of my two SSDs if needed. As the above post says, many games play just fine off of an HDD though. When I have nothing else I want to upgrade (when does that ever happen!?) and a ton of money I don't mind parting with just to replace that with an SSD for minimal benefit, I may do so. If I was buying today then sure I'd probably pick a cheaper 4+ TB SSD to fulfill the role, but I already have the 5 TB HDD and it works fine.

[Supafly]

PC has all SSD, Nvme and 2.5" drives. Got a puppy in 2017 and as PC is on the floor/elevated 3 inches, he frequently bumped into it and as he got older when he wanted a good scratch he'd be thumbing on the side of the case. To be on the safe side I moved all HDDs out of my PC system since 2017/2018. Sold most but did but a few in the spare bays of my NAS

[shiel]

gamer eredeti hozzászólása:

Is it worth doing?

I feel like I am missing out by not.

Just tried SSD to SSD and even SSD or portable SSD.

The speed is incredible compared to Hard Drive 7200 rpm to SSD.



Only normal hard drives 7200 rpm I have right now are my 2 data drives. One 4 TB SATA 7200 rpm for primary data and the other portable 4 TB Hard Drive for backup of it.

Everything else is a NVMe SSD.

I went to only ssds back in 2014. I haven't used a hdd since.

[Macro]

I still use hard drives as cheap large data storage for large amounts of data that I don't use often. As an private individual, you cannot afford to buy an SSD larger than 3-5 TB here. . However, i use SSDs for games that you want to play frequently.It could become cheaper in the future. However, the currently low price of hard drives per amount of data cannot be achieved with SSDs..

[THE LORD]

You can still use a normal HDD to store video, audio and other files like excel and word. It's very expensive to get an SSD just to store files.

[Guydodge]

about 2017 went all ssd.now M.2 and ssd

[Sigma957]

THE LORD eredeti hozzászólása:

You can still use a normal HDD to store video, audio and other files like excel and word. It's very expensive to get an SSD just to store files.

No it isn't. You can buy new ones on eBay for 45.00 USD.

[shiel]

THE LORD eredeti hozzászólása:

You can still use a normal HDD to store video, audio and other files like excel and word. It's very expensive to get an SSD just to store files.

They really aren't very expensive anymore.

[Phénomènes Mystiques]

After all this thinking, I decided that my next build will have all SSD, mainly large M.2 NVMe.

[EricOfMelnibone]

Never thought I would, but now I have 18TB of SSDs on my gaming PC and 6.5TB on my laptop. Hard drives are only for backups.

So far I've never had an SSD fail on my home systems and I've been through a couple of dozen of them since they first became affordable. They occasionally fail at work but we use hundreds there and maybe 1% fail in the first year. The rest keep going for years and years.

Biggest problem I had was finding a laptop which would actually take a 2.5" SATA drive last year. Most of them seem to have switched to M.2 only, or have a hard drive because they're extremely cheap and low-spec.

[Illusion of Progress]

shiel eredeti hozzászólása:

THE LORD eredeti hozzászólása:

You can still use a normal HDD to store video, audio and other files like excel and word. It's very expensive to get an SSD just to store files.

They really aren't very expensive anymore.

They very well can be. Entirely depends on capacity.

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A&A eredeti hozzászólása:

For backup you don't need a super fast SSD if you're still going to use windows explorer of course because it's limited around 2GB/s transfer speed which makes it pointless. The hardware is fast but the software is slow as a turtle.

That's not true at all. You're only seeing that because your hardware is limited to those speeds. I routinely see 4GB/sec commonly with peaks to 8 GB/s occasionally when copying files around in my computer with Windows Explorer in Windows 11. I have 3 x NVME drives in RAID-0 together though and that's probably why. And I'm only using older PCIE-3.0-4x drives (they were dirt cheap at $35 each for 500GB Samsung 970 Evo Plus's a couple years ago on black friday. I grabbed a couple).

Zef eredeti hozzászólása:

The only place where you would still use HDD's is in NAS and older servers.

I haven't had a HDD in my desktop's for over 10 years now.

This. I have a file server / NAS in the other room with 16 x 4TB mechanical drives in it using a hardware RAID card so they are combined in a big 60 TB array and I can average about 1200 MB/s read and write to them over the local network (10-GiG). Yes they are slow individually but combined in a server machine mechanical drives can be "decent".

[A&A]

🦊Λℚ𝓤ΛƑΛᗯҜᔕ🦊 eredeti hozzászólása:

That's not true at all. You're only seeing that because your hardware is limited to those speeds. I routinely see 4GB/sec commonly with peaks to 8 GB/s occasionally when copying files around in my computer with Windows Explorer in Windows 11. I have 3 x NVME drives in RAID-0 together though and that's probably why. And I'm only using older PCIE-3.0-4x drives (they were dirt cheap at $35 each for 500GB Samsung 970 Evo Plus's a couple years ago on black friday. I grabbed a couple).

Windows File Explorer uses one thread for each file transfer operation unless they patched it. Hardware limitations? RAM Drive.

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A&A eredeti hozzászólása:

Windows File Explorer uses one thread for each file transfer operation unless they patched it. Hardware limitations? RAM Drive.

And I wonder what kind of ram you have?