Say "Good Bye" to HDD.

[DeathAndTaxes]

Even the crappiest HDD is fine (sequential reads) to playback 1080p video.  

Get a SSD for OS, applications and other latency sensitive data and use a spinning disk for bulk media. Win-win.  Even better since the spinning magnetic platters are so cheap get two and put them in RAID1 and forget about it.

[guybrushthreepwood]

I guess if you even just download a lot of high quality movies you'll soon fill up 4TB as well.

If you only watch high quality movies you don't need SSD. A normal HDD is good enough for that

Depends how many you have, but I wasn't suggesting one over the other any way.

[Slark]

SSD disc are our future, there is no doubt about that. But for now we are fine with standard HDD discs for normal usage.

[hilariousandco]

Even the crappiest HDD is fine (sequential reads) to playback 1080p video.  

Get a SSD for OS, applications and other latency sensitive data and use a spinning disk for bulk media. Win-win.  Even better since the spinning magnetic platters are so cheap get two and put them in RAID1 and forget about it.

But HDD break pretty easily or become inaccessible. I've never used any of these SSD before but they look like the way to go, but they wont be affordable for quite a few years I reckon.

[DeathAndTaxes]

Even the crappiest HDD is fine (sequential reads) to playback 1080p video.  

Get a SSD for OS, applications and other latency sensitive data and use a spinning disk for bulk media. Win-win.  Even better since the spinning magnetic platters are so cheap get two and put them in RAID1 and forget about it.

But HDD break pretty easily or become inaccessible. I've never used any of these SSD before but they look like the way to go, but they wont be affordable for quite a few years I reckon.

Small ones are pretty cheap these days.  NewEgg has 120GB for as cheap as $60 although I would spend a little more and get a better drive.  Can't beat a Corsair M500 or Samsung 840 evo for ~$80 http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ssd-recommendation-benchmark,3269-2.html .  

That is why I said using both is a compromise.  SSD for OS, applications and data where random access matters (like the blockchain).  A pair of cheap high capacity HDD in RAID 1 (for reliability) for storage of "stuff" (backups, videos, ISOs, etc).  Now a laptop can be a tougher challenge as you often only have one drive bay but with 120GB SSD at under $100 I would still go that route and move backups and less frequently used data off the laptop.

[pekv2]

MLC is the reason I picked the 840pro over the slc evo.

MLC more expensive, longer lasting.

SLC, cheaper less life than the mlc.

Some laptops come with dual hdd/ssd bays.

[DeathAndTaxes]

You have that backwards. 

SLC is more expensive, faster, and has more write cycles
MLC (2 bits per cell) is less expensive, slower, and has less write cycles.
TLC (3 bits per cell used in 840 EVO) is just an evolution of MLC which in theory would be even slower but the 840 EVO holds its own.

[pekv2]

You have that backwards. 

SLC is more expensive, faster, and has more write cycles
MLC (2 bits per cell) is less expensive, slower, and has less write cycles.
TLC (3 bits per cell used in 840 EVO) is just an evolution of MLC which in theory would be even slower but the 840 EVO holds its own.

Derp, brain fart. As u said backwards, got TLC and SLC backwards. Mean't TLC is under MLC.

[nakoo]

SO GOOD

[axxo]

Very interesting....too bad I have a feeling the price is going to make this out of everybody's reach. The end of magnetic hard drives is near.

[sudukkk]

The key is price.

[BigBoy89]

SSD for system / OS. i use sandisk xtreme 2 128 GB
HDD for multimedia data. use 4x 4TB WD Mybook
HDD still use for save data, especially bluray rip film

that's enough for me.
where can i buy ssd using BTC?

[pekv2]

SSD for system / OS. i use sandisk xtreme 2 128 GB
HDD for multimedia data. use 4x 4TB WD Mybook
HDD still use for save data, especially bluray rip film

that's enough for me.
where can i buy ssd using BTC?

tigerdirect.com?

[hilariousandco]

Even the crappiest HDD is fine (sequential reads) to playback 1080p video.  

Get a SSD for OS, applications and other latency sensitive data and use a spinning disk for bulk media. Win-win.  Even better since the spinning magnetic platters are so cheap get two and put them in RAID1 and forget about it.

But HDD break pretty easily or become inaccessible. I've never used any of these SSD before but they look like the way to go, but they wont be affordable for quite a few years I reckon.

Small ones are pretty cheap these days.  NewEgg has 120GB for as cheap as $60 although I would spend a little more and get a better drive.  Can't beat a Corsair M500 or Samsung 840 evo for ~$80 http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ssd-recommendation-benchmark,3269-2.html .  

That is why I said using both is a compromise.  SSD for OS, applications and data where random access matters (like the blockchain).  A pair of cheap high capacity HDD in RAID 1 (for reliability) for storage of "stuff" (backups, videos, ISOs, etc).  Now a laptop can be a tougher challenge as you often only have one drive bay but with 120GB SSD at under $100 I would still go that route and move backups and less frequently used data off the laptop.

They're alright for smaller sizes, but I need several TBs to store all my videos and music etc, so not exactly practical for me at the moment, but I agree with you on everything else. It's annoying having to have other drives just to have everything backed up, because I know how easily they break. I've had two die on me in the past, but my WD Elements drives have worked without a hitch for several years (I hope I haven't tempted fate there haha).

[Nathonas]

Sandisk announces 4TB SSD, hopes for 8TB next year.

"We see reaching the 4TB mark as really just the beginning and expect to continue doubling the capacity every year or two, far outpacing the growth for traditional HDDs," Manuel Martull, SanDisk's product & solutions marketing director, stated in an email reply to Computerworld.


http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9248070/SanDisk_announces_4TB_SSD_hopes_for_8TB_next_year

SSD prices are still too high to abandon HDD.

True, I recently bought an SSD just for starting up my desktop quickly and some other applications. It's definitely way superior to HDD but yes, the prices are still a bit too high. Having said that though, computer technology evolves at such a rapid rate we will see HDDs being phased out completely probably within a decade.

[dogechode]

I guess it depends on your needs but I still fail to see why anyone "needs" more than a few hundred gb. Now you can purchase a few hundred GB of sdd storage for about the same price that a few hundred gb of HDD storage used to cost a few years ago.

[BigBoy89]

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SSD for system / OS. i use sandisk xtreme 2 128 GB
HDD for multimedia data. use 4x 4TB WD Mybook
HDD still use for save data, especially bluray rip film

that's enough for me.
where can i buy ssd using BTC?

tigerdirect.com?

idk why i can't access that site
maybe my country IP was blocked
Access Denied
You don't have permission to access "http://www.tigerdirect.com/" on this server.

i'll try using VPS

[hilariousandco]

I guess it depends on your needs but I still fail to see why anyone "needs" more than a few hundred gb.

Anyone who owns more than 100 digital films or works with film editing.

idk why i can't access that site
maybe my country IP was blocked
Access Denied
You don't have permission to access "http://www.tigerdirect.com/" on this server.

i'll try using VPS

The site isn't loading up for me either. I'm just getting a Server not found error.

[dogechode]

Video editors sure but I doubt too many people posting here are legitimately video editors. Most are probably just storing 500 million pirated movies and games lol. And porn.

[hilariousandco]

Video editors sure but I doubt too many people posting here are legitimately video editors. Most are probably just storing 500 million pirated movies and games lol. And porn.

And what would be wrong with any of that? And video editing isn't the only use for massive amounts of storage.