Who the hell still uses HDD in big 2026?
>>109052538big datacenters
>>109052538People who value their money
>>109052538Me (2011 computer)
>>109052538I have a 15 year old HDD. It still works.
>>109052538They're much cheaper than SSDs if you want 1tb storage and more.I have 3 usb hdds plugged at all times for storing shit since my main drive is completely saturated. Been like that for almost 10 years and none of them broke.I've heard they're safer for prolonged unplugged storage too.
>>109052538people who need more than 2TB of storage, zoomie
>>109052538me (larger penis than yours)
>>109052538ask me how I know you dont do anything with a computer other than play silly games
>>109052538Me nigga, they may wear out but they don't have a finite amount of write cycles like flash chips do, which is awesome because you can beat it up as a scratch disk on your editing rig and they don't die.
>>109052538I do. If you have an alternative that's cheaper per TB let us know.. We'd love to pay less in these times.
>>109052538Datacenters and extreme hoarders
>>109052538Methey're cheap and hold lots of data
>>109052538The SSD dream is dead
>>109052538I do. Even if I could technically afford 20 TB in SSD space, that would be completely retarded.
>>109052538I know what you're trying to do, you're trying to turn people away from HDDs so there's more for yourself in these dire times. Well it won't work because I'm buying all of them.
>>109052538me
>>109052538SSD are 257% more expensive than earlier, HDD are only 35% more expensive than earlier (see https://winfuture.de/news,156367.html for details).That's the reason for HDD in 2026.
>>109052538I do because fuck you that's why.
>>109053293I still like em cause they're very big and reasonably fast enough, I have a Windows 10 vbox that lives on an absolute clapper of a WD10EZEX and it's still fast enough.
>>109052538Big datacenters use up and replace several HDDs per hour.
>>109053095This. Oldest trick in the book.
>>109052796>they're cheapIf they're second hand.>WD Elements 4TB in 2025: £95 (yeah, I know)>WD Elements 4TB in 2026: £295
