How much Hard Drive space do you use on your Laptop?

[Vaporo]

yeah, but its harder to throw your desktop across the room when you lose at team fortress...

Yeah, "fair and balanced," huh?

 

[pmmg]

Did not realise there was a real discussion in this one. I work in it. I use both. Personally, i think all my actual machines have spindle drives. I dont really play games anymore so speed is not an issue. You can buy a much bigger drive for the same money with spindle types but that is becoming moot. Generally i fill up a 1tb drive so i would not consider smaller.

it is definitely true that spindle drives offer recovery that ssd does not. Its not widely known but ssd drives will die faster if they start to run out of space. Has to do with wearing out the read write ability of the remaining space so you dont want to have one of those and fill it up.

ive also used hybrid drives. No issues with those, but they do have probelms just like any other drive.

the world is moving deeper into ssd do this question wont matter soon. Ssd will be the only before long.

 

[Vaporo]

the world is moving deeper into ssd do this question wont matter soon. Ssd will be the only before long.

Maybe some day, but maybe not as soon as you think. Hard drives are still king when it comes to mass storage since they're cheap and reliable. SSDs have been around for a while now and I haven't seen too much of a price drop, so they may have bottomed on manufacturing costs out for the moment. Pure speculation, but only time will tell.

 

[pmmg]

Well... the first ssd i purchased were 128gb at about $80 a peice. Later i was buying 256gb at the same price. At that time there were no ssd at 1tb for less $400. Here is one today

https://www.bestbuy.com/site/samsun...MI1-jIot2Y5QIVSz0MCh2-WwFnEAQYAiABEgJYlfD_BwE


so i think the day is coming. I think it is called Moores law, technology doubles every two years and prices halve.

 

[Vaporo]

All right, fair enough. I've mostly looked at laptop SSDs, so maybe that's where the difference comes from.

 

[v_legolas_gleaf]

yeah, but its harder to throw your desktop across the room when you lose at team fortress...

 

[A. E. Lowan]

so i think the day is coming. I think it is called Moores law, technology doubles every two years and prices halve.

You're right, it's Moore's Law. It also states that tech will get smaller until we run into quantum physics problems that will cause short circuiting.

 

[Tom]

I upgraded from a laptop with an HDD to a much newer one with an SSD earlier this year and so far I'm amazed. My HDD had more storage space, but it was so slow and crash-prone it was basically unusable. The SDD laptop is blazingly fast. And I make up for any lost storage with a 1TB external drive, so the space tradeoff wasn't even an issue.