Anyone with true HDDs still around here?

[Bomby569]

subscription services are not reliable, you can lose your paid stuff at any time
cloud is just other peoples computers, it has security problems

I'm still old school, i prefer to host my own files.

 

[Realtab]

I've got a 1TB that has archive documents type stuff, pictures, and a little music on it but all real day to day usage is SSD.

 

[nomdeplume]

I'm certainly the second type of person who enjoyed watching this video

 

[de.das.dude]

I'm certainly the second type of person who enjoyed watching this video

this is the kind of stuff you watch in your bed ready to fall asleep.

i enjoy a lot of Astrum Sleep Space as well.

 

[Athlonite]

I'm certainly the second type of person who enjoyed watching this video

Nice collection but he's missing a few especially the 545MB seagate

 

[papas12]

Yeah, I use HDDs on a daily basis. My main rig currently has a 320 GB 2.5-inch Hitachi TravelStar HDD at 5400 rpm that I installed for the fun of it to see how it performs and for the facts that it is inaudible, small, low-weight, cold, relatively fast due to the increased platter density and it barely consumes any power (around 1.5W while operating). I also have around 20 more HDDs ranging from 250 GB to 2 TB and I will use them at one point in time. I have paid for them so why not - I am definitely not going to toss them away or sell them for peanuts.

I also have a bunch of SSDs, so yeah, I am not coming out of a cave but I have a soft spot for HDDs. I grew up with them after all...

 

[sirbaili]

I have 2 NAS Devices:
one with 16TB -RAID 5
and another 22TB - RAID 6
Wife is in statistics -so she has enormous amount of data -thay she accumulated over the years

 

[DaemonForce]

Nice collection but he's missing a few especially the 545MB seagate

The ST3660A shows up a fair number of times, real charmer.
Comes out to 519MB after formatting. Ideal for nobody.

 

[Wirko]

The ST3660A shows up a fair number of times, real charmer.
Comes out to 519MB after formatting. Ideal for nobody.

519 MSMB (Microsoft megabytes) = 545 STMB (Seagate megabytes).

 

[Athlonite]

The ST3660A shows up a fair number of times, real charmer.
Comes out to 519MB after formatting. Ideal for nobody.

Maybe not anymore but back in the day when I first bought it it was perfectly fine for the DOS 6.22 + Windows 3.11 install it still has on it and a bunch of old DOS Games aswell

 

[nomdeplume]

Nice collection but he's missing a few especially the 545MB seagate

That channel has a newer video with 497 HDD totaling over 2 hours in length. Didn't want to interrupt the flow of this thread with it.

 

[Hardcore Games]

I abandoned EIDE disks long ago as SATA disks are hot plug making them 10x easier to use and replace when needed

 

[Athlonite]

I abandoned EIDE disks long ago as SATA disks are hot plug making them 10x easier to use and replace when needed

Oh no they're not oh yes you can plug it in whilst the PC is powered up but chances are it won't show up without a reboot

 

[lexluthermiester]

That channel has a newer video with 497 HDD totaling over 2 hours in length. Didn't want to interrupt the flow of this thread with it.

That's just impressive! Saving that for later!

Oh no they're not oh yes you can plug it in whilst the PC is powered up but chances are it won't show up without a reboot

No, they're right. Part of the SATA spec is hot-swap ability. It depends on the controller not the drive. All SATA drives conform to the same spec. In Windows and Linux if you refresh the hardware profile, the drive changes will show up.