For me I’ve made it to 2025 with 8 gigs of ram and I didn’t get one of those retarded ass SSDs they astroturfed everywhere a while back

I still don't have a smartphone

jk I'm sending this post from one but I bet you believed it for a second

>>105567174 (OP)
>it's 2025 and i'm too poor to afford more than 8 gigs of ram and a 10$ 128 gb ssd
...okay?

>>105567174 (OP)
Sir, do the needful and try one of these. Much better than shitting street sir.

>>105567318
I have two 240 gig SSDs that I got from microcenter for free. This isn't just poor. This is mental illness.

my boot disk

hdd quality has really deteriorated, probably to push those ssd's that start decaying the moment you start using them

I'm never running an OS from a hdd ever again literal caveman behavior

>>105567318
Can’t hear you over my raptor sar

>>105567371
It's more like there's more precision required and points of failure in trying to compact magnetic storage ever further.

https://www.backblaze.com/cloud-storage/resources/hard-drive-test-data
The increased failure rates don't seem too bad though.

>>105567174 (OP)
why is buying new hardware "a meme" which one must "fall for"? why do you have such a strong desire to feel special?

>>105567728
face of a model, body of a trucker
the opposite of butterface

>>105567174 (OP)
>8 gigs of ram
Eh, I use an old Surface with 4 gigs from time to time. It's fine as long as you don't open a fucking web browser.
>one of those retarded ass SSDs they astroturfed everywhere a while back
I pity you and also can't hear you over the deafening silence of all the Optane drives I'm hoarding.

>>105567786
She looks nice and squishy. It IS a cute face. Would with the force of those Volvo trucks Van Damme did a split on-top of.

>>105567786
her body is fine, faggot

Jesus Christ I have ssd's since 2012, I would have killed myself if I had to put up with spinning rust speed for 13 years

This sounds like cope, all of this new tech is cheap and easy to get even working minimum wage. Are you on disability or something?

Is this a joke? SSDs are amazing, dude.

>nand cartel shills have arrived

I refuse to buy any graphics card capable of ray tracing. In a couple years you suckers are gonna be sorry

>>105567174 (OP)
It was a meme 10 years ago due to trash capacity but now even the bottom of the barrel $300 laptop has 512 GB at the very least these days.

>>105567786
>face of a model
Look at it for longer, it's easy to get fooled by makeup and hair

>>105568188
Too late, even Tonga has raytracing now. That's a gpu from 2014.

>>105567174 (OP)
G-Sync/FreeSync

Agree with SSDs.
>power it off
>loses all data
lol
lmao
I have hard srives from 2009 that still work perfectly but I've never heard of an ssd lasting more than 10 years. Many stories of dead drives within 5, which I had never heard outside the internet (i.e. propaganda) with hdd's.

>>105567590
What's the sustained read speed on those?

>>105570211
about 200mbps sustained, 600mbps burst

>>105567174 (OP)
Same, made it to half of 2025 with 8 gigs and no ssd.
I'm finally retiring it tho.

>>105570235
7200 RPM WD Golds are faster then. Those do around 230-250MB/s sustained average.

>>105567174 (OP)
>he fell for the ssd is a meme meme

>>105567298
lol you got me, anon

>>105567590
Yeah, Raptors are fairly loud.

>>105569806
>power it off
>loses all data
This doesn't happen. At least not unless you are cold storing the drive for years, and in that case the longevity of the data in storage depends on how hard you'd used the drive beforehand.
But then, no one is arguing for you to buy SSDs for cold storage.

>>105571190
>for years
all it takes is 6m to 1y at ambient temperature.

>>105571329
Are you not using a computer at all for 6+ months at a time?

>>105571351
Thinking more about e.g. putting an old laptop in storage somewhere. The important stuff is on it but some voluminous stuff is temporarily only there. 1.3y counting on one such device right now.
I'm also using a few hdd's as external archives. Nearly never touched (typucally when I migrate stuff I dump on them.first and that's it).

>>105571431
Also I've moved countries a couple times and it's always taken more than 6 months until I could access my desktop (more like 8-9 months usually, except in one case where I stayed only one year and never could unpack)

>>105571431
It's almost like SSD isn't meant for long term cold storage and if you want to do that you should transfer it's data to a medium suitable for that before doing so. Imagine it.

>>105569806
My 2009 Intel X25-V 40GB SSD still works fine and even has high vitality left due to it using SLC.

>>105571431
Your use case is unusual then
People don't mind using SSDs because they actually use their computers.
Even people who do keep a PC unpowered aren't paranoid about it.

>>105571443
Sounds like a EU issue
Peasant

>>105567174 (OP)
He is that poor.
L O L

>>105571462
the problem is that shit happens that can't always be predicted. I have a computer from 1994 in my basement. Has't been touched in over 20 years. Disk still works just fine and I can mess around with it today. Good luck doing that with an ssd, you end up having a brick you can't boot and can't convert to anything if the hardware gets old.

>>105571496
mostly because they don't know

>>105571539
You sound retarded and bitter
Your usecase makes zero sense what third world shithole doesn't let you take your computer gear with you

>>105571576
You must be 18 or older ro browse this site.

>>105571539
bruh, who treats PCs like a future archeological dig site?

>>105571585
Answer the question 3rd world faggot, you're acting like it's a major uplift to have a dedicated HDD that you could archive data on while having instant access to a regular ssd device.
Are you a fugitive on the run or just a lazy fat disabled fuck that can't unpack

>>105567786
face of an uggo, body of an uggo.
she's average.

>>105571588
Again, that's not the point. The point is sometimes you need to dig up data and multiple scenarios come to mind.
Maybe this one is easier for you to understand: imagine you mined bitcoin at the very beginning and then changed computers 3 times since. You now remember you had a wallet lying somewhere with some coins you'd like to cash out.

>>105571618
The ideal scenario is to have an hdd and an ssd and to do routine backups (lower overhead than raid1 and most scenarios allow for lapses without much repercusions).
But that's expensive for dubious value vs just an hdd and not avaikable as an option and many modern laptop configs.

>>105571756
Leigon 5 used to support HDD you can still get laptops and keep the backup on the device, but USB 4 makes things easier with it's speeds so a external drive is affordable and fine if you're so cheap a pcie gen 4 2 tb should be around $100 and a 2+tb WD blue and enclosure should be less than $100

>>105567174 (OP)
I’ve been exclusively buying SSDs since around 2014 or so. I view buying an HDD the same as buying cassette tapes for music storage, it’s just technology that got surpassed.
And 8gb of ram gets btfo by any video game after 2010 and that’s all I use my pc for, 32gb lets me never worry about cities skylines

>>105567786
>said the 250lb skinnyfat white guy slouching at their desk so far they’re causing permanent neck injury

>>105567728
I would cum inside this woman and have her eat my asshole
I don't need to marry the whore

>>105567350
This. I store my GRUB partition in an 11-year-old memory card that came with a security camera I bought from AliExpress. Doing this, I save almost a GB that can be used to store stuff.

>>105571791
external drives are extremely unreliable and larger HDDs tend to have longevity problems. Seting up a dataserver is cleaner, but has the same issues eith mobility.

>>105568224
>it was a meme 10 years ago
I don't know X18/X25 had like 80/160gb wich was pretty good desu. But yeah, there were tons of meme capacity drives as well.

>>105571515
HDDs are the more expensive option now

>>105569806
Samsung 830 from September 2011. Don't think i have ever had an SSD die.

>>105571839
I don't know what to tell you, there is no perfect solution and redundancy is the safest option

>>105571905
That's my point. HDD is the least shitty option on average.

>>105571904
Just noticed my power on hours, jesus.

>>105571756
>Maybe this one is easier for you to understand: imagine you mined bitcoin at the very beginning and then changed computers 3 times since. You now remember you had a wallet lying somewhere with some coins you'd like to cash out.
Every bit of data I have personally saved or created is backed up on a NAS, and I often take everything from a previous PC to my current.

There is like no data that exist on an old PC or even HDD that I don't already have a copy of.

>>105571917
most of my drives rolled over

>>105571904
My first SSD from 2015 has about that many hours.
It's in my router now.
I do wonder what the upper limit is for SSD power on hours, nothing stopping them from lasting basically forever.
My day job has seen SSDs that have been in use since 2011 continuously.

>>105571956
Unfortunate :(
I think the oldest drive i still have running is one of those super low capacity intel drives from ~08

>>105571943
Yeah, that's the way. But that requires having the space and stability to set it up, or to trust a 3rd party.

>>105567590
lol

>>105571917
>4524 power on count
>/ 365 = 12.4
>2011 + 12.4 = 2024ish
Basically, turned on every day.

>43899 power on hours
>/ 4524 = 9.7
Computer turned on everyday for ~10 hours.

>>105571904
>>105571917
Kinda low bro. I have a mechanical drive with 90k power on hours. Current computer has one with 36k, which is low but it's my second newest drive.

>>105567174 (OP)
ive never used more than 60 hz

>>105567174 (OP)
>retarded ass SSDs
One of the biggest performance gains you can do and that for not much money.
The complete and utter retard here is nobody but you.

I can't possibly imagine being so pathetic as to need to come up with this level of compensation to cope with the fact you're too poor to use anything but hardware that was ewaste a decade ago.

>>105573136
and yet here you are, posting even worse cope

>>105567174 (OP)
I'm convinced every single anti SSD thread over the years has been made by the same faggot.

>>105573185
ssd shills in full damage control lmao

>>105567371
>>105567649
Cheap consumer HDDs have gotten worse or haven't improved, while the large capacity enterprise ones are good. Anything that isn't helium filled is consumer crap or old.

>>105567174 (OP)
i fucked up and got a 60gb slc ssd when it came out.
if i just waited 3 years i could have had 500gb tlc for same price,
i fell for studio headphone meme m50s sucks.
i fell for the ryzen meme.
i fell for the golden plated cables

>>105573145
Where's the cope, bot? Do you even understand what the word means? Are you just autonomously responding?

>>105573223
Backblaze uses consumer grade hdd's you retarded niggerfaggot.

>>105571833
>>105567350
Every SD car I've used for a boot disk eventually fails after like 2 years.
the fuck kinda magic are you doing?

>>105574983
the boot drive is separate from your system drive. It's not hammered with writes

>>105574963
Yeah 10 years ago
Now its mostly enterprise HDDs because consumer drives aren't made in any real capacity that can supply a datacenter.