SSD Reliability...is it better than HDD? (Answers!?)

[EarthDog]

Well with my new build I am going with 4 SSD's M2.

With that config, I can't think of any reason to put programs on a spinnner...

Folks, don't put programs on spinners, lol.

 

[Flamethrower1972]

I so agree.

 

[magellan]

I did end up putting all my programs on a SSD, but not an M.2 and not even a particularly fast one because 4 TiB SSDs are still expensive. I also use primocache and a 2 TiB M.2 Skhynix P31 Gold to cache my old spinner and now for my 4 TiB Samsung QVO. Once a game/program is cached there's no noticeable difference in loading speed between my dead spinner and the Samsung QVO.

 

[Woomack]

HDDs nowadays are almost only for backup as GB/$ is still much lower. SSDs are cheap enough to use them for everything else ... and are getting cheaper.

 

[mackerel]

I moved to SSDs only in my daily use systems. My main has about 4TB spread over several smaller ones I collected over the years. My laptop and a test system each has two 1TB drives. My temporary quad core test system has a 1TB SATA.

If I were buying a SSD for general use I think 2TB is very affordable, with door open on 4TB if you need bigger storage. HDs might offer bigger storage still, but I'd only use it for bulk. I still run two NAS. One has 4x3TB HDs, the other has 4x8TB + 1x6TB HDs, with one disk each used as redundancy. I dump content I don't need to access daily on there. Old videos, photos, and a never shrinking pile of "unsorted" folders.