1 TB SSD vs 2 x HDD raid

Ravnen

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Hi all.

My Samsung Spinpoint F1, started giving me signals of their imminent death, so I'll have to replace them when I get paid next week. The drives were used for storing games and the occasional video. The question is what should replace them?

The competition so far is between getting 2-4 normal harddrives in raid (1 or 1+0) or 512-1024 gb of SSD. The price per year of use is important.

The drives I'm considering are:

HDD:
Seagate Desktop HDD ST1000DM003 1 TB (or the 2 TB variant)
Toshiba DT01ACA100 1 TB (or the 2 TB variant)
Wester Digital WD10EZEX 1 TB

SSD
Whatever have the cheapest price/gb.

So should I go through a last cycle of HDD's before going all SSD or is now the time for change?

I hope someone is able to give me some good input and point out considerations I might have forgotten.
 

Ravnen

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Unfortunately they have started clicking from time to time, but would love to get a new set of these as they have lasted almost six years. Unfortunately they are no longer produced :(.

I agree with your point, but it all comes down to what one considers storage. I only use my desktop computer for gaming and I have external drives for storage and transferring content between my work laptops and gaming desktop, which means that the only thing on my desktop is programs/games. I'm just not sure this is enough to warrant the extra cost of upgrading to SSD or if I should wait another HDD life cycle before taking the leap. It's basically a question of the price development of SSDs.

The 10k drives are unfortunately to expensive as I want at least two for Raid 1 or four for Raid 1+0.