Question: In the past year I’ve been having a lot of issues with hard drives failing on me. One day they work perfectly fine and the next they suddenly disconnect causing programs to crash without showing any errors in the drive checks…
I was thinking about replacing my mass storage drive where I have important files, programs and temp files stored to with a 1TB SSD since of course there are no mechanical parts that could fail…
Is it worth it? I’m more concerned of the lifetime of the SSD, right now I have around 300GB stored on my HDD, and as mentioned above, it’s also used for temp files (including the Blender autosave which saves every 5 minutes files that can be 100+MB in some cases)
Answer:Theres no golden minute or read/write cycle time for a drive, you could buy a SSD and the next day it just dies or could last 10 years. Same goes with hard drives, i have a computer at work that is sill running windows XP and is 25 years old with the original hard drive. Could it die tomorrow or last 10 more years, i dont know.
When it comes to is it worth spending the extra money only you can answer that question, i dont know your financial situation.
For me i look at what its needed for,
500Gb nvme OS
1TB nvme programs
6TB Steam games
6TB blizzard, origin, epic, ripped ISO images for old CD/DVD games, ROM files for atari,NES,SNES, PS1
6TB movies
For SSD’s ive only used intel and samsung, for HDD my go to is Western digital, but my backup computer is running Seagate Ironwolf drives. If you dont leave your computer on all the time the WD blues are ok, i personally would go for blacks, and if your leaving the computer on all the time like me red pro.