What kind of storage is in your personal computer?

What kind of storage is in your personal computer?

  • Mechanical drives

    Votes: 69 53.9%

  • Solid state drives

    Votes: 91 71.1%

  • Nonvolatile memory express (NVMe)

    Votes: 64 50.0%

  • Other

    Votes: 6 4.7%
  • Total voters
    128
Kung Fu Porkchop said:
84TB for storage? Wtf are you hoarding?
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Mostly my series. A nice to have for me. Whenever I have time I can open a start watching whatever I want, without the need to worry about subscriptions, struggling to find older content, certain content being removed from streaming services, etc., etc.
 
rvZA said:
Mostly my series. A nice to have for me. Whenever I have time I can open a start watching whatever I want, without the need to worry about subscriptions, struggling to find older content, certain content being removed from streaming services, etc., etc.
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Must be a LOT of series. Sheesh
 
Kung Fu Porkchop said:
Must be a LOT of series. Sheesh
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I do not think it is so much the "lots of series" as it is the size of some files. I like getting series when they release in full Blu-Ray 1080p DTS quality, which means that some episodes could exceed 10GB per episode. Some seasons with 13 episodes could easily get close to 200GB per season and exceed 1TB for the series.
 
rvZA said:
Crazy stuff... and I thought my 70TB of series was big.... I wonder what he/she uses for storage?
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Crazy amount of series/movies - but guy does have Remux, 4K, 1080p options.
 
1x 5TB 2.5' HDD (Photos, Archiving & infrequently played games)
1x 1TB 2.5' HDD (Scratch disk, Geforce recording)
1x 2TB M.2 NVME (Games)
1x 960G U.2 NVME (AI projects)
1x 500G Sata SSD (Boot)

Good mix of storage on my Mini-ITX box, for everything else there is the NAS.
 
The microservers, old Dell PowerEdge, ancient HP are all spinning metal disks around
In total about 15 disks

Laptop has a lone SSD and one spinning disk
 
Sinbad said:
The performance difference between nvme and Sata ssd warrants a separation imho
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Subjective. Note that the original poll did not qualify with SATA.

You can have a RAID of SATA-3 SSD drives too.

In terms of magnitude you'd now have to speak of SATA-1 HDD vs SATA-2 HDD vs SATA-3 HDDs.
They also differ in terms of speed and then there are other interfaces too.


Kung Fu Porkchop said:
Nope
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Yup. Both are solid state. It's just the data connector and controller which differ.

SSD = SOLID STATE DEVICE.

That's all it is.

Both will not care if the device is jolted. Both will be fast for random access.
 
Mirai said:
Subjective. Note that the original poll did not qualify with SATA.

You can have a RAID of SATA-3 SSD drives too.

In terms of magnitude you'd now have to speak of SATA-1 HDD vs SATA-2 HDD vs SATA-3 HDDs.
They also differ in terms of speed and then there are other interfaces too.
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LOL not even close to being in the same ballpark.
SATA-3 is 6 gigabits per second max - so around 600MB/sec on the controller.
My NVME drive does nearly 7MB per second... over 10 times faster. That's not subjective.
 
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2x1TB Sabrent PCIE 4.0 NVME.
2x2TB Samsung EVO SSDs.
Used for gaming only.

No mechanical drives.
 
Sinbad said:
LOL not even close to being in the same ballpark.
SATA-3 is 6 gigabits per second max - so around 600MB/sec on the controller.
My NVME drive does nearly 7MB per second... over 10 times faster. That's not subjective.
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We'll have to agree to disagree buy your distinction is arbitrary.

The subjective is the differentiation you're putting on speed and not the technology.

Again difference between SATA-1 and 3 in say 2012 was huge for the type of work people did back then.

Nvme drives are SSDs. They're all solid state.

It's like asking what do you drive...

Motorbike.
Bicycle.
Car.
AMG Mercedes Benz.
 
Mirai said:
We'll have to agree to disagree buy your distinction is arbitrary.

The subjective is the differentiation you're putting on speed and not the technology.

Nvme drives are SSDs. They're all solid state.

It's like asking what do you drive...

Motorbike.
Bicycle.
Car.
AMG Mercedes Benz.
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OK, then SD cards and USB sticks should also count as SSD :) Oh and those 8KB memory cartridges I had to plug into my Vic20
 
Sinbad said:
OK, then SD cards and USB sticks should also count as SSD :) Oh and those 8KB memory cartridges I had to plug into my Vic20
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I knew you were going to bring that up for the sake of being argumentative.

USB sticks and SD cards are solid state but the SSD term was more associated with controller equipped, internal or external storage (but indirectly connected) devices. There are also memory cards used for professional video cameras and the like but they were never SSD either.
Basically your magnetic rotating drive was replaced by the SSD, the interface improvements don't matter because it's the evolution of speed of that.
Look even manufacturers agree with me:
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