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Greg55

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So basically if the price and the storage is not a problem, is there anything else a HDD does better than an SSD? What about liability?
 
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well you can get an external drive and put a couple of hard drives in raid 0 and not even come close to maxing out a usb3 or esata port. or you can get a couple ssd drives in raid 0 and max out a usb 3.O or esata port with just one drive .. so.. lol its a pretty open ended question storage vs speed.
 
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I have plenty of external storage, i noticed that after a year of usage i only have about 200 GB of storage covered in my pc's hdd and of that only around 100 GB is essential, so im thinking about an SSD around 240/256GB and no HDD for my next build and im wondering if that's wise.
 
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External storage is less reliable and can be inconvenient. Other than that, you should be good with240-256 GB.
 
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yea i generally use the external drives as network drives and just go that route. they dont have to be plugged into a router or anything you and just have them pluged up to an older computer and use it as a media streamer.
 
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It is easier to recover data from a failed HD than from a failed SSD. When an HD fails (head crash, drive circuitry, etc) there are fairly easy (for the drive manufacturers, not home hobbyists) proprietary mechanisms they can use to partially if not completely preserve your data. When an SSD fails it is usually because of too many nand chip failures (very common thing to happen as nand is very error prone) and when that happens the drive is completely useless. However, the good news is that the life expectancy of an SSD is at an acceptable level for home usage (look at how long the manufacturer warrants the product) and an HD can't beat the seek times!
 
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What is more possible to fail and what lives longer the ssd or the hdd? i don't care about data loss cause i already have stored things i care about in external devices.
 
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That really depends on how rough the device is treated. There are a lot of reasons for an HD to fail, head crashes, bearings wearing out, drive being used as a hammer :), etc. The main reason for an SSD to fail is due to nand chip failures. All nand memory has some instability, all nand memory will eventually fail, all nand memory must be "refreshed" periodically becase it "forgets" it's state. How soon will this happen? How long have you used a flash drive without failure? It uses the same technology, nand chips. My suggestion is that if longevity is the most important thing for you, then do some research on each of the devices you are planning on potentially purchasing. Look at the manufacturer's MTBF failure numbers vs duty cycles, and how long they warrant the product for. You can get both cheap HDs and cheap SSDs. Bottom line is you get what you pay for. Personally, I own both types of devices. My "C" drive is a fast SSD for the OS and applications that can benefit from very low latency issues, and my other HD drives are used for everything else. I also use a removable HD for backups that only see the light of day when I'm doing a backup. I hope that this information helps.
 
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