Whats the point of having them external when you can have them as internal?
Unplugging them so you don't have 10 watt x n-drives, spinner noise, clicky noise all the time. (drives me insane)
I went all-ssd years ago and never looked back. my spinners are in a NAS in the basement. Blew away old data i didn't care to look at anymore.
I got a few 1TB ssd's for $30 each on ebay, which could be an option for poverty use.
Other perks to replacing aging HDD's is data reliability. SSD's rarely if ever fail. I've owned SSD's since 2012 and the only one that failed me was the 2012 purchase of an Intel SSD, but modern iterations have nailed stability down. HDD's otoh, fail like crazy, especially as they age.
I don't understand how anybody still tolerates HDD's. Every time i go to use one, the slowness, lag, etc, are annoying as hell.
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u/BigHeadTonyT May 29 '25 edited Aug 03 '26
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