Do you still use a HDD in your main computer?

My main computer is 2 x 1TB NVME for games and apps. I have a 3TB external HDD for storage of movies, shows, and other misc stuff.

I couldn't imagine going back to using a HDD as a primary drive.

The 2TB Firecuda 530 is currently on sale on Amazon for only £206 (works out about €240 with import fees etc).

This is probably the best SSD on the market at the moment. Anyone considering upgrading - this would be highly recommended. Picked one up myself (although delivery won't be until Nov 4th for some reason even though I'm on Prime).

With the recent "early sale", they also had the Crucial P5 Plus (2TB) for only £165. So, hopefully, this is the beginning of 2TB 4th Gen entering the sub-€200 mark.

Apart from performance, one good reason to not use a HDD for the OS or critical files is that it will eventually wear out or crash. I know that SSDs will also wear out but the system will spread the writes load over all of the free capacity so as long as you are not using >80% of the capacity, an SSD will far outlive any HDD with similar usage.

I had a 2010 Thinkpad with a 256GB HDD, after about 5 years I replaced the HDD with a Samsung 840 EVO SSD and saw a spectacular improvement in performance, especially at boot time. If you're OS is on a HDD, you don't know what you're missing. Your boot time is chronically slow compared to what it would be if you were booting from an SSD.

All hard drives , SSD or HDD can and do crash losing all the data. The need for backups of your critical data has not changed.

I have hard drives that must be 20 plus years old and are still working .... some western digital 15GB ( yes ... that was considered huge in the 90,s ) some 150 and 300 GB drives , etc. and of course , some WD red 4TB drives that are in that microserver must be heading for 10 years old.

That kind of reliability is as yet unproven with M2 SSD's

The best Ive got so far is a samsung evo 240 GB 2.5 inch SSD running the OS on one PC and an Intel 60GB 2.5 inch running the OS on a microserver .... both about 5 years old.

Mostly a lossless music collection , currently running at 25K albums , and running from my own personal cloud , also some pro photography , all in raw format for future usage , and secure backups of the above.

Trashy mp3's are not for me , as far as I'm concerned Music must be lossless , which includes CDs , SACD,s DVD audios , Blu ray Audios , Blu Ray concerts , and high quality needle drops of titles that have never been released digitally .... it mounts up pretty fast , for example SACD isos are 4GB each and I have about 1200 of them. Thats 4TB and of course that has to be backed up .... and so on ....

Note , we also have apple music , and the liberties they take with albums is just not acceptable , some of them are patched together from singles to save on server space , some are missing tracks to avoid rights issues .... basically , streaming is just not good enough .... and most outrageous of all to me , some are edited on the fly because some bloody snowflake took offense at some lyric or other .... not for me.

Thanks, and there was me thinking that my 60 GB of MP3s was a bit mad!

The importance ( to me ) of maintaining my own music collection became even more apparent last night.

Having a few drinks with mates and we got to talking about great gigs in Croke park and Simple Minds 1986 , with the lightning during the gig came up , so put on the "Once Upon A Time" Album in Apple Music ...... for some mad reason , the track "Alive and Kicking" is "not available in your region " ...... WTF !!!!

No problem though , fired up Jriver/Jremote and played it from my server.