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Well, I have multiple HDDs that pass basic tests required for data to not be corrupted. I also got a brand new 1 TB HDD this month.
 
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I use a 20TB for my primary media storage and have 2x10TB as its backup with 2x8TB as their backup (minus less essential data).
 
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I will only buy another one when 1 of my backup hdd drives will fail. But these drives are not connected all the time. Just an extra besides Sata and nvme backups.

And for Retro builds drives up to200GB
 
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Just a 2TB for storage, 2x1TB NVME drives for OS and games and a 240GB SATA SSD that has no purpose and currently has Ubuntu dual boot installed to.

Edit: I also have a 500GB that was unassigned a drive letter, for the life of me I thought I gave this away for a budget build I done for a family member last Christmas, but lo and behold found it when I was in disk management :laugh:

Damn windows power settings turning off HDD's every 20mins, these drives have 3k+ power on count, the 2TB Seagate barracuda has 10k power on hours and the older 500GB WD drive has 25k powered on hours, both showing good health in CrystalDiskInfo :p
 
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What's a "true" HDD? A certain type? Or are you asking for those of us that we actually use them as opposed to just owning them but have them sitting in storage?

I qualify for both, actually. I have three HDDs that I actively use, and five that I don't.

One is a 5 TB Western Digital Black, and it is for games (don't worry, ones that warrant it get moved to an SSD while playing). This will likely be the next drive I replace with an SSD, but it'll have to wait until 6 TB+ SSDs are cheap enough to justify replacing a drive that isn't slowing me down (since I can move games over to another SSD), so... it'll probably be a while.

A second is an 8 TB Western Digital Blue, and it is for storage. I can't justify going to SSD for storage until multi-TB SSDs are cheap (as in, below $200 each at least and we're many, many years off from that).

A third is the same as the above, but it is inside an external enclosure and it's used for backups (basically, a duplicate of the other 8 TB drive).

I'll probably be using HDDs in some form for a while yet.

I also have other hard drives that are no longer in use.

Two are a pair of 4 TB Western Digital Blues (not the SMR ones). I used them until a few years ago, and I replaced them with the aforementioned 8 TB drives as I outgrew them.

Another is a portable 5 TB 2.5" Western Digital Elements. SMR, and slow. It was the old external drive.

My final two are a pair of 640 GB Western Digital Blues (from back when they were still 7,200 RPM) and they are from like late 2007 or 2008?
 
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Yup, I have a 4 TB WD Red in my daily driver PC as a whatever random storage/old HDD backups and such. 'according to HD Sentinel its at 100% health, 5400 RPM so its not that loud either'
 

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Alas, I do. A 4 TB HDD for games on my rig along with a small SSD for OS. It was time for a new build 3 years ago but I postponed it due to mostly only playing really old games. I have no reason to ever buy another HDD in the future though so my upcoming build will say goodbye to my old friend the WD Blacks.
 

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I still have two Toshiba DT01ACA300's. Back when 3TBs of storage were like £70. Ive been waiting for prices of hard drives to drop so I can retire them but prices have went up and stayed up.

On top of that, there arent as many choices for old motor driven internal HDDs compared to the market 8 years ago when there were more players competing with one another. Now you end up paying inflated prices unless you go with external HDDs. WD have gotten smart about people shucking their external drives and putting them in desktops or servers so some models wont have the separate USB to Sata bridge chips anymore, they'll have a female USB port soldered directly to the hard drive instead of it having a sata connections.
 

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25TB in my server for backups and other things. 4TB in my camera workstation. Couple other drives for storage on my test bench.
 
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Of course I have several HDDs! Where else would I store my data? In the cloud (that is, on someone else's computer)? Oh please... :D
 
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Damn windows power settings turning off HDD's every 20mins
You need to go into Control Panel and then the power options and then you should be able to disable that. It's 20 minutes by default.

I still have two Toshiba DT01ACA300's. Back when 3TBs of storage were like £70. Ive been waiting for prices of hard drives to drop
At least it's not bad like in 2011 and 2012! The dreaded Thailand flood! 2011 was a very-wet year in the northeast U.S. as well! I likely couldn't even get a brand new 320 GB HDD to save my life!
 

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HDD's aren't going anywhere, the use has just shifted a bit. SSD is fine for on the fly use, but for actual storage HDD's is the way to go. Thinking hard about setting up a NAS for real, but we'll see.
 
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You need to go into Control Panel and then the power options and then you should be able to disable that. It's 20 minutes by default
I know this, have changed it now, though the power on/off count is crazy, still no issues with either drive.... fingers crossed :p
I still have two Toshiba DT01ACA300's. Back when 3TBs of storage were like £70. Ive been waiting for prices of hard drives to drop so I can retire them but prices have went up and stayed up.
Quick look on Amazon shows a lot of affordable 8TB+ drives, don't seem too expensive tbh, tempted to get a larger HDD myself at some point, just because :laugh:
 

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I have a few old low capacity drives that I keep around.. havent touched them for a few years now. They just have my music, apps, and pictures. All of which I have copies of stashed away on other drives.

30/MBs.. bruh..
 
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4 HDD's in AMD rig, 2x Seagate 8tb and 2 x WD 12tb. (see sig).
Also 4 in this machine 2 x 3TB WD and 2x 4TB WD. Ideally want to make this machine one HDD only (backups) or SSD only. Could do a combination of cleaning up data, moving to TrueNAS drives, and moving to replacement SSDs, my issue is getting my head to accept I buy one or two 4TB SATA SSD for same price per GB as NVME.
 

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Quick look on Amazon shows a lot of affordable 8TB+ drives, don't seem too expensive tbh, tempted to get a larger HDD myself at some point, just because :laugh:

Not necessarily desktop specific ones. There are tonnes on there but mainly for NAS/Enterprise or Surveillance. The only regular desktop drive i can see is a Seagate BarraCuda while the rest are refurbished old hard drives or drives with questionable origin.

of course I can use hard drives that were made for NAS/Enterprise or Surveillance but they tend to be slower and built with a lot more redundancy/reliability in mind which means they cost more. Thus you are still paying inflated prices.

The Seagate Barra's only run at 5400rpm.
 
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Not necessarily desktop specific ones. There are tonnes on there but mainly for NAS/Enterprise or Surveillance. The only regular desktop drive i can see is a Seagate BarraCuda while the rest are refurbished old hard drives or drives with questionable origin.

of course I can use hard drives that were made for NAS/Enterprise or Surveillance but they tend to be slower and built with a lot more redundancy/reliability in mind which means they cost more. Thus you are still paying inflated prices.

The Seagate Barra's only run at 5400rpm.
Ironically I consider 5400rpm as a premium, quieter and less power. My 7200rpm drives dont feel any faster than 5400rpm ones, but the extra noise was noticeable, until I shoved behind the sofa, they also idle at more than twice the power. When I got my 12 TB WDC I made effort to look at the spec sheet for idle power and noise levels, the ones I got are helium which have less noisy and more efficient motors like 5400rpm drives do.
 

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I just found a firecuda...

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Now compare that to the price of the Barra.

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Thats quite a jump in price. But then again CMR vs SMR and the RPM.
 
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I would take a punt on one of the renewed by Amazon large drives, worst comes to worse and it's shit Amazon returns are pretty much top shelf, at least in my personal experience, no hassle, send it back, postage paid, refund or replacement without questions, though even £120 for 8TB of storage is not bad really.

Really want to buy a large HDD now that I don't need :laugh: , though been considering a NAS as well and maybe doing away with the extra storage in my PC, would probably come in useful to my son who is a PC gamer also, use it as a download dump/network media storage etc
 
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I know this, have changed it now, though the power on/off count is crazy, still no issues with either drive.... fingers crossed :p

Quick look on Amazon shows a lot of affordable 8TB+ drives, don't seem too expensive tbh, tempted to get a larger HDD myself at some point, just because :laugh:
What I dread, are the "shingled-magnetic-recording" HDDs!
 
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I have hard drives for backup and some SSHD in old machines but avoid shingled drives.
 
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"Anyone with true HDDs still around here"​


Sure.

Running 2x6TB WD HDD's since uh, 2015-6 in RAID UNO (RAID UNO=Cali slang), plus 2 Samsung SSD's.

Both my 6TB WDD HD's still refuse to fail. It's been, uh a whole lotta years since AD 2016, uh, some 40k "POWER ON" hours.

So yeah hombre, what else you wanna know?
 
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What I dread, are the "shingled-magnetic-recording" HDDs!

Heehee my 2x8TBs are both SMRs but were bought exclusively as backup HDDs so they aren't particularly noticeable. But if I watch the backup progress I can see the Shingle Shuffle from time to time when throughput drops in a way I don't see from the other drives.
 
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But if I watch the backup progress I can see the Shingle Shuffle from time to time when throughput drops in a way I don't see from the other drives.
Does it look like a CMR HDD that's in really rough shape? (Like HDDs that are at "the-click-of-death's-door")
 
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