HDD / SSD Thread

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>>61751338
still not enough.

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One more terabyte than you had yesterday.

Never enough, you run out eventually. Though as you expand you consolidate so the number of required drives shrinks as you grow.

What's the best HDD in the €50-100 price range,in storage and lifespan?

>>61753031
Get some refurb HGST 3TBs. 60 burgers, they're reliable and $20/TB is the lowest you're gonna get

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>>61751338
You can't have too much, because eventually every hdd in your shitbucket will fail

>>61751524
your drives are on fire

If you have more than a TB that isn't some business content or saved videos you have produced or something, you are a hoarder slob.

The fuck are you going to do with your "digital collection" of saved 4chan images? Pass them down to your children? lmao

>>61753994
I collect movies
is that ok?

>>61754012
Piracy is sinful, though if they are your own rips of purchased items I suppose I can't complain.

>>61754067
kill yourself with your DRM and minute-long ads

>>61754067
yea I purchased them all, the same way I get paid every time I answer a question on the internet

>>61753571
>refurb HDD
lol

i have a 5tb backup drive and its a pretty decent amount. if you're trying to archive or collect a bunch of shit you wont use then you'll never have enough.

>>61751338
If you more than you need, you imbecile.

>>61753994
Some people do stuff other than jerking it to hentai porn and posting dank memes you know.

I have 1TB of RAWs from my camera + scanner, 1TB of social media comments data sets for dicking around with ANNs and statistics, 1TB of 3D and gamedev projects and data, 3TB of movies and TV, 1TB of games and roms, 1TB of VMs, 1TB of FLACs, and 1TB of misc important files.

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>>61751338
>that cable "management"

>>61751338
>2 SSD bays

how the fuck can people live like this?

I got like 4 on my 750D and i feel like it's not nearly enough

>>61755313
All the other HDD bays have SSD mounting holes(sans rubber grommets) on them, well unless you fill up all of them with HDDs.

>>61751338
What drives are those? Model

>>61753969
only the 3 actually inside the computer.
fuck microatx case mfgs for not putting ventilation near the 3.5" bays

>>61751338
I've been getting by with 1tb.
But, thats just because I have a 6mbps connection and downloading shit over it makes me want to kill myself.

>>61756312
WD Greens

I have a NAS so all of my systems have like a 256GB SDD and a 1TB hard drive.

>>61751338
I have one computer, and I have used a total of 180GB of its 500gb hard drive. All of my data and programs are stored on it.

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>>61755313
I stack my SSDs or shovem wherevs not like they have moving parts or get hot.

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>>61756534
those aren't WD Greens. Those look like the Seagate Ironwolf series. Pic related prices are coming down. Waiting for them to hit the $320-ish range and I'll be buying 4 of them.

>>61755313
>tfw people are bitching about have 4 drive bays while i am doing more than fine with one
what the fuck do yall even store in 4 drives

>>61751338
Is that a ROG Code/Formula board or Sabertooth Mark 1?

>>61756584
I have 5 drives in my main system. Dedicated 120GB SSD I've had for years as dedicated boot. 2x500GB SSDs for dedicated game installation space. 1TB mechanical for overall local storage and local storage backups + windows backups.

Server has 9 drives. A dedicated SSD for boot, 2x4TB for anime/TV series (4TB usable), 2x6TB for my extensive movie collection (I rip and encode all my own DVDs and Blu-rays.), and finally 2x2TB for music and all the pictures I take with my DSLR.

Then there are the 2x1TB laptop 2.5" drives I have in a dual bay enclosure. I flip it on and use it as a network backup location for all of my devices. Laptops, tablet, phones, and desktop all store their OS backups here. I update the backups once every month and the turn the drives off again god forbid my sister or someone manages to infect the network (and all the connected machines) with some type of worm or crypto-virus.

>>61756573
What's the difference between Barracuda Pro and Ironwolf Pro? Been thinking about getting one normal 8tb Ironwolf for my desktop but it's a NAS drive so I'm not sure.

>>61756568
Actually SSD's have a tendency to get hot.

>>61756649
seems the Barracuda is more of an entry level drive backed by a decent warranty and meant for average use. Where as ironwolf seems to be NAS specific and as such, not meant to be powered on and off. Memes aside it seems Seagate has been making some decent drives, so both would probably be fine for you.

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>>61756649
>>61756693
straight from the Seagate main site. Barracuda is more general use. Ironwolf is all about that NAS.
>>61756668
only if the drive is NVME based and you're writing a shit load to it does an SSD get warm. 99% of the time, you're reading more than writing from an SSD, and they don't even move temperature wise.

>>61755313
Just put them wherever. SSDs don't care.

>>61751524
>dem hitachis
Hnnnnnnngggggg

>>61756668
If your SSDs are hot anon it's probably the placement. I've never seen mine even hit 40c and I'm that slob that stacks em.

>>61756726
>>61756693
What would happen if you use a NAS drive as a single drive in a desktop?

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>>61756726
>tfw a total drivelet
Is one 256GB SSD enough?

Those new toshiba drives are interesting. Great prices on 4tb 128mb 7200 rpm 3.5"s. But really my only important data is composed of images and documents.
I think I'm going to throw two of the toshiba's in a raid0 and keep my brand new un-used 500gb 2.5" wd blue I pulled from my laptop at my friend's place as an off-site back up.

>>61756808
Only you would know. I'm an extremely heavy desktop user. 10 hours a day minimum, 16 on the weekends. Some of these guys have huge catalogues of 10bit anime BR rips and like 100gb versions of movies and shit.
If you play more than one modern video game it's not going to be enough. If you just spend another $45 on a 1tb HDD though you'll be fine.
Depends how many games you have and how you consume your media.
Don't get into private trackers.

>>61756800
The same as what happens when you use any other drive as a single drive in a desktop.

>>61756845
>like 100gb versions of movies and shit
Pretty sure these don't exist. Biggest I've seen was a ~70-ish GB full bluray disc.

I have my SSD on the flipside of my case and in order to remove it I would have to remove my motherboard. I am retarded for using such a stupid design.

>>61753994
some things found online can eventually become unavailable

some things you want to be able to use without being online

>>61756808
I have a 128gb SSD that i use for Windows and sheeit, and a 1tb barracuda for storage.Probably gonna buy a new one at some point, but for the moment it works okay enoug.
Mind you the price/Gigabite range of SSDs is somwhere around 240-480gb -that's where you can get the best deals

>>61751524
Enjoy your spyware and backdoors winfag.