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[-] Tja@programming.dev 53 points 10 months ago

My 8TB Seagate failed a week ago and I was looking into new drives. The cheapest HDD was around 25 EUR per TB (for the 18TB ones) and the cheapest SSD were under 50 EUR per TB. No idea where this "7 times cheaper" comes, maybe from 2015.

I ended up buying a 4TB Crucial MX500 with 4TB for 208 EUR (barely enough for my data, but with some cleanup it will hold a year for sure).

Not only it's faster, it's smaller (fits in the NUC), it's quieter and it consumes much less electricity. I don't think I will ever buy an HDD ever again. Maybe for surveillance recording?

[-] user1234@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 10 months ago

They ain't called Seabricks for nothing. SSD will let you sleep at night.

[-] Tja@programming.dev 3 points 10 months ago

There is a substantial difference indeed, now the setup is basically silent (I don't load the CPU enough for the fan to kick in).

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