What the hell happened to high capacity 2.5" HDDs? You'd think that now that programs are installed on SSDs, people would be more interested in high capacity, relatively silent HDDs with a low power draw? But no, there are less +2TB 2,5" HDDs on the market than years ago. WD didn't even release a WD Red with 2 TB, although there have been blues and greens with that amount of storage ages ago.
Maybe it's just me living in Germany, where 1 kw/h is 27 cents, so a HDD running 24/7 drawing 2W saves me about 25€ a year compared to a HDD drawing 7W (so they'd save ~ their initial price over a course of 5 years), but they got so many other advantages that make them relatively interesting. Still, they're dieing out. Why is that? Does anyone know if any new releases are around the corner?
Dominic Lewis
>where 1 kw/h is 27 cents jesus christ and these eurotrash are calling us 3rd worlders
Brandon Powell
In my 3rd world country I can find 5TB Seagate barracudas for 250 euro
Leo Howard
with smr. The only 3tb hdd in 2.5" without that shit is from toshiba.
Jason Carter
Hard drives are slowly becoming irrelevant with SSD tech improving. HDD is old tech no matter how you spin it because it was made in like the 70s or 80s. Cheap SSDs with high capacity, high transfer speeds, and high read/write counts are the future.
Anthony Brown
Data hoarding on your notebook is silly for most people, and the serious sort get a business class notebook with drive expansion options. If you need to hoard a lot of data put it on a NAS and leave it turned off until you need it.
1TB SSDs are reasonably priced if you want silence, even lower power draw, and far better impact resistance.
Asher Cook
There is no need for size (as in storage) in this form factor. SSDs are now used in that form (and much smaller) factor instead.
3.5" hard drives still grow as they have an actual use.
Brayden Collins
>1TB SSDs are reasonably priced not in my country lol.
Carson Gonzalez
>27 cents to the kwh >Literally paying as much as Hawaii, an isolated socialist state, does for electricity Dumb haole
John Allen
>just because it's old makes it irrelevant ok. wake me uip when the wheel is replaced.
