HDD or SSD?

i want to have somewhere to backup my photos but idk which one it is my best option... comments? thanks.

>considering ssd placebo
ishiggy

floppy disks

Hardrive unless you want to pay out the wazoo for large capacities. Is this even a question?

SSD for active use (internal storage on your computer)
HDD for backups

SSD, don't listen to the faggots. A 256gb flash drive is $60 on Amazon, back your shit up there.

>backup my photos
If you have less than 60gb, get usb
If more, just get ssd

>i want to have somewhere to backup my photos
Hard drive.

id do hard drives for if its in ur pc and stays there
ssd or flashdrive for if your going to move it

Oh wow, 256 gb flash drive that can only hit 50mb/s thresh irl. Anyone can get a 2TB hdd for that same price with similar speeds because it's USB 3.0 limiting it. For the record, usb 3.0/3.1 256gb flash drives go on sale at costco for ~$30 every now and then. That's worth it desu.

a hdd is going to take a lot longer to actually transfer the files onto, but if you don't plan on transferring frequently (ex. you just do one transfer a year 0.5TB in size) you should just stick with a hdd. It's cheaper for higher capacity

I'm interested too

which one will last longer?
which one is more durable and tolerant of a hostile environment?
which one will not go belly up without warning?
which one is recoverable should it go belly up?

Mdisc.

Google it.
You can get 100GB disks.

Pricey but won't rot assuming you can treat them physically kind.

Arvid

>some dude from 900 years in the future will be jerking off to ancient porn

What a grand existence.

...

>tfw not born in the future to fap to porn made from people who lived and died centuries ago

SSD on every count

>But according to a test of the French National Laboratory of Metrology and Testing at 90 °C and 85% humidity, for 1,000 hours, the DVD+R with inorganic recording layer such as M-DISC showed similar deterioration in quality as other conventional discs with an organic recording layer, with a maximum lifetime of below 250 hours.

One has storage decay and the other doesn't.

Hmmm...

If you are comfortable in 64gb buy a couple of pen drive and make two backup. Differently I think HDD is still better for archive. I have 2 wd red.

I forgot to say that a single backup is not a good idea. Everything dies eventually.
And, raid 1 is not a backup.

hdd be: "coff coff nigguh i'm dyyying screeching sounds, rustle, weird searching for pills noises, officially diagnosed in crystalcancer ... slows down, coughs some more ... still works for another 3 years and reassigns some sectors lol "

ssd be like: "g'day m8te ... next seconds its ded"


recovery?

> hdd cheaply possible
> ssd consumers are fucked

(yeah backups and all but we know how it is)

SSDs are system and program drives.
HDDs are long term storage drives.

>better storage per dollar ratio
Whoever did this fucked up, it makes it seem like Chad is poor.

can someone explain the concept of using a SSD if it has "storage decay"

Like wouldnt your Operating system stop working if that were the case?

LTO6 tape drive

Use an SSD as the boot drive where you keep your OS and most used programs. Use an HDD for everything else.

So if you're looking for a hard disk to back up photos on then you should just buy a mechanical hard drive.

Meanwhile you can have a 1TB HDD for that same amount.

>60GB SSD for the OS
>500GB HDD for everything else
Just werks

Easy to answer. They have awesome performance and they last for years, probably longer than expected. I have one since 2011 and it's ok.
Anyway I literally don't care about my SO. I have more than one computer and no one is indispensable in short term, in addition I backup the ssd with os and programs every two weeks on my nas, well it's automatic for all my computers.

Using a SSD means to load and save GB of files in second and not minutes. If you are a pro it's a thing!

could be better.
You should use SSD also for programs and for the file of the projects you are working on.

Chad is poor.

This.

HDD, data won't vanish and for photos read/write and all that isn't important. Also you get much more space for same price.

>HDD, data won't vanish
Yeah, it just crashes. Best case scenario, you can get a partial recovery.
A SSD that I used for over 5 years, constantly, just became extremely slow to write to and had no problem copying the data off it.

Yes, it has storage decay. If you leave it unpowered for a decade or two, anything under that time span is no problem.

vhs mate, use vhs

Thanks for reminding me of those. May look into getting one when I build my next PC.

>a decade or two

has anyone even witnessed decay?

Data deteriorates faster on SSDs when not used

It's logical just because how the type of flash memory works that's used in SSDs.
As said, it's a extended period of time, far more than it becoming ever a problem, you don't archive on SSDs to store them away without power for decades.

Indeed it does. But it's not scalable, like if 5% rots over 10 years then 0.5% will rot over 1 year, the first signs of deterioration only start after a decade (or more). Before that it's non-existent. Also it only applies to drives left unpowered.

An HDD I used for 10 years had no problems either. Just don't treat your PC like shit I guess.

Obviously, my 10MB MFM drive from '83 is still working fine also.