Timeline for What is the maximum size of a 2.5" HDD? (for laptops)
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| May 23, 2023 at 19:27 | comment | added | gronostaj | @user9564371 A permanently installed 2nd drive is not a good backup solution. Spill something on the laptop and both your main drive and the backups are gone. Plug in a sketchy power supply and both drives are dead. Get infected with ransomware and all copies are encrypted. Either use cloud or a NAS and automate backups. Make sure to store old versions too so that accidentally deleted files can be restored and make sure that no data considered useful remains only in the backups (that's not a backup anymore, just additional storage). | |
| May 23, 2023 at 15:27 | comment | added | user9564371 | @Mokubai I'm setting this up for a family friend so I can't really control how they do their backup, I can only suggest, they're not particularly savvy enough so I figured I just set them up with a large storage 2nd drive where they can put their files and photos while the main system drive is an SSD. They don't plan to game on it or anything | |
| May 23, 2023 at 15:25 | comment | added | user9564371 | @YisroelTech and gronostaj : I forgot to mention that the drive is not going to be the system drive, it's going to be a 2nd drive using a drive caddy that converts the DVD slot. The main system drive is going to be SSD. | |
| May 23, 2023 at 15:24 | vote | accept | user9564371 | ||
| May 23, 2023 at 6:36 | comment | added | Tetsujin | Anecdotal use-case. I've had HDs last a decade & also die in a year. Same with SSDs. Currently the oldest boot drive in the building is a 9-year-old 1TB SSD. Power on hours 78,664 [that's 9 years continuous run-time, this machine very rarely sleeps or shuts down] Total LBAs 682,688 million. Used reserve block count 0. Still shows 100% good in SMART tests. | |
| May 23, 2023 at 5:03 | comment | added | gronostaj | @user9564371 If you need a 4+ TB drive and you don't need it to be fast then you probably won't be writing to it all day long. In such case modern SSD's write endurance will be more than sufficient. | |
| May 23, 2023 at 4:16 | comment | added | Mokubai♦ | @user9564371 as long as you have a backup (which you should have anyway) those "finite reads" are largely irrelevant and quite frankly the absolutely awful performance of 2.5" HDDs makes them an atrocious prospect for any system where you want some kind of responsiveness or usability. I've had SSDs that lasted longer than the computer itself and HDDs that failed after a year and vice versa, and I'd take the SSDs supposedly shorter lifetime over the HDDs chronically useless performance every time. If you need high endurance then look for SSDs with a high DWPD (Drive Writes Per Day) figure. | |
| May 23, 2023 at 3:53 | comment | added | Yisroel Tech | Maybe. But the "finite" is quite a lot, and the "theoretical unlimited" doesn't mean unlimited since the HDDs always break... Especially for a "laptop" which isn't in almost any case a read/write powerhouse. | |
| May 23, 2023 at 3:48 | comment | added | user9564371 | But don't SSDs have a finite number of reads and writes whereas an HDD has a theoretical unlimited reads and writes as long as the internal mechanism is still working? In that scenario, I'm not really looking for a fast storage per se but something that can be written and read for a very long time. | |
| May 23, 2023 at 3:41 | history | answered | Yisroel Tech | CC BY-SA 4.0 |