Need to bump up the main drive on my development machine from a 1TB SSD to 4TB to accommodate local LLMs. Is it worth it to move from blue to black or gold? Also I noticed that mechanical drives are making a comeback. Should I stick with a SSD or go to a mechanical HDD?
>>107186318Blue is good enough
>>107186318If you have the ability or option, keep a basic 1TB NVMe SSD on your motherboard as your main booter. Put all your development and main stuff on it (IDEs, SDKs, DB engines, ect). Then offload your actual LLMs and code repositories to the HDD. You'll have a noticeably faster system running off the NVMe and keep it free of clutter by offloading the heavy stuff onto the HDD.This is my WD Blue. It's worked for me just fine, I've never really felt the need to upgrade. If you absolutely need performance maximization just get the black one. Gold is more or so for steady high volume read and write if I recall correctly, like if you were running databases with lots of activity.
