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oppy1984@lemm.ee 3 weeks agoThis is how I know I’m getting old, my first thought was “spinning rust for always on long term storage” and then I remembered it’s 2025 and SSD’s are about equal now.
Get off my lawn, your interrupting Matlock!
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Still cheaper though. 4TB you are looking at around 3x the price for it in SSD storage. Although I wonder how the power use compares, might be worth factoring in but probably isn’t too massive over it’s realistic lifespan
oppy1984@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Oh yeah, I run spinning rust in my nas. All data storage for me is on HDDs, only OS date is on the SSD. That’s for the nas and my computer.
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
My main data usage is game installs and pretty unimportant temporary stuff so it doesn’t need backup fortunately. Game saves do of course but a simple bash script and the file size for that is tiny in comparison.
oppy1984@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
SSDs are getting reasonable, you might want to look into it again if that’s your use case.