HDD is still the superior way to store data compared to ssd’s. Ssd’s are great for accessing your data fast but for people who have a lot of data they don’t access regularly the reliability and price of an HDD is unbeatable.
As the other guy said, because they are way cheaper. I use them for media storage.
For 20tb of hard drive storage, you could expect to spend ~$400 (probably less these days), but the same price will get you a 5th that on ssds (maybe more these days)
If you are streaming video, hard drive read speeds are good enough.
Dumb question. Why should someone ever buy a HDD nowadays?
16TB 7200 RPM the same price as a 2TB NVME.
Do you want 2TB super fast or 16TB that still can transfer at decent speeds?
The answer is yes.
Because I can’t afford 120TB in SSDs…
Still cheaper, i use them for large volumes of data that isn’t read or written that often
This will blow your mind, but datacenters still buy tapes. It’s just stupid cheap.
I don’t get why we research DNA as storage.
It is sensible as fuck, deteriorates quickly, is slow to write and read…
Only advantage it’s bio-compatibility
The information density is insane, both volumetric and by mass.
I sort of agree, though. With current methods it seems like it would probably be just as easy to record information in a synthetic polymer.
They’re great for a NAS, where the priority is high capacity and low cost, over high performance and high cost of SSDs for comparable capacity.
Enterprise 5400 RPM drives for NAS are cheap/quiet/reliable
Because of economy
HDD is still the superior way to store data compared to ssd’s. Ssd’s are great for accessing your data fast but for people who have a lot of data they don’t access regularly the reliability and price of an HDD is unbeatable.
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As the other guy said, because they are way cheaper. I use them for media storage.
For 20tb of hard drive storage, you could expect to spend ~$400 (probably less these days), but the same price will get you a 5th that on ssds (maybe more these days)
If you are streaming video, hard drive read speeds are good enough.