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[–] jlh@lemmy.jlh.name 0 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Eh hard drives are archival storage these days. They are DOG SLOW and loud. Any real time system like Nextcloud should probably be using ssds these days.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 17 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Hard drives are also relatively cheap and fast enough for many purposes. My PCs use SSDs for system drives but HDDs for some data drives, and my NAS will use hard drives until SSDs become more affordable.

[–] jlh@lemmy.jlh.name 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

yeah i still use hard drives for storing movies, logs, and backups on my Nas cluster, but using it for nextcloud or remote game storage is too slow. I also live in an apartment and the scrubs are too loud. There's only a 5:1 price premium, so it's worth just going all flash unless you have like 30tb storage needs.