HDD (Storage Purpose Only) Worth It In 2021? Which Upgrade Plan Is Better?

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LooN3y

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I'm wondering if HDD are still worth it. On the HDD I'm going to store extremely old games and media files.

NVMe is going to have recent/played alot games

SSD is going to have older but fairly recent games


Which plan is better in your opinion? I know 10 TB is a lot but games are 100 GB or more these days.

I'm thinking going FULL SSD since legacy games shouldn't take much space and media is most likely going to be under 500GB. But the extra storage space is very sexy.


Current setup

Storage 1: 2 TB M.2 NVMe
Storage 2: 2 TB HDD



Upgrade Plan A

Storage 1: 2 TB M.2 NVMe
Storage 2: 8 TB HDD (Seagate Barracuda
Storage 3: 4 TB SSD (870 EVO)


or

Upgrade Plan B

Storage 1: 2 TB NVMe
Storage 2: 4 TB SSD (870 EVO)
Storage 3: 4 TB SSD (870 EVO)
 
johnb35

johnb35

Administrator
Staff member
It's basically just a matter of knowing how much space you need and how much you are willing to pay for that space and speed access. But I have a feeling that hard drive usage will start declining now that SSD's are pretty cheap. I do not build pc's with HDD's anymore, its all NVME. It just doesn't make sense to anymore.
 
beers

beers

Moderator
Staff member
Depends on your dollars and capacity goals.

It's easy to blend a NAS for bulk media and have solid state in all of your functional PCs.

That being said the 4 TB 870 EVO drive is like $500, of which you could get a 18T mechanical drive for less money
 
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