Say "Good Bye" to HDD.

[ensurance982]

SSDs make sense for end users and certain other use cases. But if it comes to large storage needs and data that needs to be overwritten a lot, they just don't do the trick. Blocks on an SSDs can only be written about 1000 times and they're still a lot more expensive than regular HDDs when it comes to large capacities.

[BurtW]

SSDs make sense for end users and certain other use cases. But if it comes to large storage needs and data that needs to be overwritten a lot, they just don't do the trick. Blocks on an SSDs can only be written about 1000 times and they're still a lot more expensive than regular HDDs when it comes to large capacities.

Your information is way out of date:

Another limitation is that flash memory has a finite number of program-erase cycles (typically written as P/E cycles). Most commercially available flash products are guaranteed to withstand around 100,000 P/E cycles before the wear begins to deteriorate the integrity of the storage.[22] Micron Technology and Sun Microsystems announced an SLC NAND flash memory chip rated for 1,000,000 P/E cycles on 17 December 2008.[23]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_memory

[Balthazar]

BurtW

His information is absolutely correct, the most of MLC based drives have 3000-5000 P/E cycles limit, TLC is much worse. While SLC is able to provide billion P/E cycles (1000000 cycles for memory in my X25-E, for example)

Don't confuse SLC memory with MLC or shitty TLC scam memory. I recommend you never even think about buying TLC based drives.

[OptimusPrime7]

Nobody want to pay overpriced SSD, all my miner are still using HDD.

[ekoja]

yes ssd is too expensive.  HDD will still have the buyers.

[Balthazar]

I recommend you never even think about buying TLC based drives.

Samsung 840 TLCs are just good enough for most of the users.

Some people would prefer to buy it due to lower $/GB rate, of course. But TLC is a marketing scam for sure, even if we'll forget about significantly lower durability. Just try to test how ITGC and TRIM are working in samsung 840 and compare it with any modern MLC based drive such as Plextor M5S...

[Singlebyte]

Well HD are not totally done for yet......


Seagate is now shipping 8TB hard disks.

http://www.engadget.com/2014/08/26/seagate-8tb-hard-drive/

[lemfuture]

^ go hdd go hdd ^

[BTCmaster3]

Still using HDD, I prefer cheaper drive then expensive one..

[Skrillex]

They'll prolly be expensive as fuck for me to try to buy one

[e3_1230v3]

SSD is too expensive

[DoraTheBTCexplorer]

I cant afford current SSD, let alone this one.

[tsm]

No one can afford it lol.