But the tortoise won the race
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HDDs usually last longer than SSDs. If maintained carefully, they can last over a decade.
Oh shit, oh fuck..
Lol this seriously confused me, I read it like 3 times cause I kept missing how your HDD came out on top in the situation
I’m surprised there are so many platter drives still putting around in the consumer space. I think I switched my main drive to an SSD in 2010 or 2011. I lost my mind when my boot time changed from 2 minutes to roughly 15-30 seconds.
I am now curious when laptops and pre-mades stopped using platter drives in their systems. I know that they’re still used for high capacity situations as they were fairly low priced prior to AI, but you don’t see them as a primary OS drive often anymore.
mine is still chugging along as a secondary, storing linux isos and some games. it's more than 15 years old. i'm replacing it with a high capacity hdd when it dies simply because they are still the cheapest way to have a lot of space if you don't care about speed.
i assume they will have a small resurgence with the memory shortage and consolidation of the do you have a loicense internet over the next few.
Ain’t that the fucking truth. My wife and I have a local file server with 16TB of platter drives on it for this very purpose (RAID10 for data safety purposes mind you, so 8TB;We really do not trust high capacity platter drives due to history).
We keep a 1TB NVMe on it for the OS drive though. Gods know the hardware is already old enough on it (8GB DDR4 with an i5-6600) and we don’t need it being any slower than it already is.
Fair warning on platter drives though. They’re starting to get affected by the AI shortage due to the sheer necessity of mass storage in data centers and people getting desperate for local storage. The price hike on them isn’t going to be nearly as dramatic as anything on solid state drives and RAM were though.
It's pretty wild to be reminded. I got my first SSD in like 2017 but since Arch (btw) & co. runs "acceptably" on hard drives I still run it sometimes.
On a Phenom II X6 with 12gb ram, Cachyos is a 35-second boot on a basic dram-less SSD. Cachy booting from a sata hard drive in that same system is 3 minutes 30 seconds. Debian based distros take about 5min.
It's insane how you can optimize the start-up of a pc with systemd-analyze critical-chain. Every few years I do it to keep it under 30s.
Did you ever try putting ssd in old computer?
I might actually and have two laptops for fucking around with.
Itll make your old computer feel like a new computer.