I suppose the question needs to be asked: why are there still hard drives?
The cost per byte is still lower than flash memory, and access times are faster.
In theory SSDs should be faster, more reliable and use less juice.
But they keep improving hard drives so fast SSDs haven't really had a chance to catch up, at least when price is factored in.
SSDs presently seem to cost 4x to 8x as much as an equivalent HDD. $500+ for a 1 TB, when I can go to Costco and walk out with a wallet size 1 TB HDD for considerably less than $100.
And I keep hearing stories about SSDs not being as dependable in practice as theory says they ought to be.
“I suppose the question needs to be asked: why are there still hard drives?”
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That and a lot of people buy storage by the terabyte.
I have 3 terabytes spinning in the basement as a personal cloud server and probably twice that in backups and less essential stuff stuck in the fire safe.