There is literally no reason to continue using a 3.5" HDD in your desktop over a 2.5"

as this user says. Why would I want to buy a 2.5" 4TB drive with smaller constraints, higher failure rate, and more heat build up when for the same price (or usually less honestly) I can get the same capacity in a 3.5" drive? It's irrelevant really as all my main storage is in my Server. All 16TB of it. My editing machine has all SSDs and a pair of 1TB seagate's in RAID 0 for scratch space backup.

>For desktop consumers.
Largest 2.5 in hdd is 5 TB.
Largest 3.5 in hdd is 12 TB.

When will they make 3.5 in SSD with 20 TB?

> do you legitimately use more than 1tb on your desktop?
I use over 3tb
> A lot of compact PC cases don't have the space
Ok cool, I don't own a lot of compact cases. I have a real case, so again why would I buy an inferior drive?

I have an old case with no 2.5" slots and I'm too lazy to get adapters. Also there are no 2.5" HDDs over 2TB

>do you legitimately use more than 1tb on your desktop?

I work with high resolution photoshop files. A week's work runs into gigabytes.

Storing backups, archives and previous versions is essential.

My 1tb drive spends its life bouncing between 80 and 100% usage.

Except cost

>do you legitimately use more than 1tb on your desktop?
You said literally no reason, more capacity is a valid reason and I don't have to justify why.
Also yes, wtf. My backups alone are larger than 2TB.

>My 1tb drive spends its life bouncing between 80 and 100% usage.

Might be time to get a high capacity drive then friend. My server has 22TB of space across 7 drives (7TB useable). Where as I can spend $700 and get 3x 8TB drives or $900 and get 3x 10TB drives and still have 8 to 10TB usable space. High capacity drives have never been cheaper.

>conveniently ignores the lifespan argument

>do you legitimately use more than 1tb on your desktop?
Nu-male detected

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3TB ones exist but they rarely sell them as bare drives, only as pre-built externals, apparently.

nice twos user

If you were intelligent enough to use FDE from the beginning like I do, you wouldn't have this problem.

/thread
OP is, as always, a huge faggot.

>3TB ones exist but they rarely sell them as bare drives, only as pre-built externals, apparently.

Exactly. On the other hand you can get up to 10TB 3.5" HDDs easily.

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You too :3

yeah but how do you fit it in the desktop?
they never make cases with specific fitting holes for 2.5"

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seagate.com/internal-hard-drives/hdd/barracuda/#specs-2-5

And it's weird, but the external version of these drives is priced lower than the bare drive, despite the fact that they're exactly the same drive inside.

Bare drive: amazon.com/Seagate-Barracuda-2-5-Inch-Internal-ST5000LM000/dp/B01M0AADIX

External: amazon.com/Seagate-Portable-External-Photography-STDR5000100/dp/B01LZP2B23/

You can crack open the drive enclosure (with some effort) and pull out the drive to use a regular internal SATA drive.

I have a 4tb in my laptop...

>5400RPM

no

2x 2TB or 1x 4TB? they go up to 5TB, while 3.5" goes up to 12 btw

Seagate's 3.5s are so reliable, you think I want to mess with 2.5s?

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>they never make cases with specific fitting holes for 2.5"
Sure they do, but this is beside the point when 2.5" to 3.5" and 3.5" to 5.25" brackets exist. I've seen 5.25" adapters which will fit 4 x 2.5" SSDs in one bay. The drives would most likely meltdown being that close together, but things like this exist.

128gb ssd & the 4tb hdd. i replaced the dvd drive with the hdd. didn't know if the 4tb would fit. it was thicc compared to the previous 2tb but i managed to ram it in there.

yeah, most HDDs above 1TB go from 7mm to 9mm of thiccness and only some laptops can handle it

there is literally no reason to continue using a 3.5" HDD in your desktop over a 5.25"

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Works fine for bulk storage. Use an SSD as a cache if you need to store games or other frequently-accessed files on it.

I've had a 2TB for a few years and a 5TB going on a year, both going strong. Some anecdata, fwtw.

WTF can't we have a Bigfoot HDD in 2018? I never understood why nobody else went this route. Were there manufacturing or reliability issues with them?

>Were there ... reliability issues with them?
LOL.

let me know once those 2.5" hdds are the same price/gb as the 3.5" ones, with the same performance (ie, not laptop shit)

might be for storage but lul at sub 10 MB/s speeds

It seems like with Seagate you'll have to win the lottery.
I just looked at some reviews for the Seagate Expansion (STEB4000100) which uses a Barracuda (ST8000DM004) and judging from reviews you'll probably get a dead one or one that lasts past a bit past its warranty.
Then again I used an external HDD from Seagate for several years and it's starting to die now I think. Then again I barely used it. I keep JAV on it and use it once in a while

with m.2 and the cloud there is literally no reason to use mechanical hdd. join the future op. stop downloading yer pron

how much data would fit on a 5.25" SSD?

Currently have 12tb and going. I buy 4tb hard drives for 100 here brand new from the company. I've used about 9tb already

people who think their HDD brand they brought it good and "going strong" after afue years don't realise shit.

if your seeding torrents 247 all brands of HDD will die in 1-3 years. some will last 1 yearsome will last 3 years. for general use that's not reading 247 all harddrives will last like 5-8 years and at that point they will be so small compared to the new drive you buy you will never release they die.

people saying brands are good because they haven't failed on them yet are idiots and are not actually using their harddrive properly.

Correct. my desktop only has a 2.5" and a 5.25" drive

Ask how much it would cost instead, you retarded faggot

Are they all in raid 0?

>22TB
>7TB usable
>RAID0
You're dumb

So what are some good HDDs or is it all just a lottery?

TOASTING IN A BAIT THREAD

The quints have spoken

Really, where do they buy their drives from? I want cheap drives as well, Canadian here

Why is the consumer space essentially devoid of 3.5" SSDs?

They probably get discounts for bulk orders that they pass on to him. You could go to the same supplier they do but you're not getting the same price for a single drive.

>SSDs dont support secure overwriting
make only encrypted writes to ssd's. once done with the drive toss the key and no data can ever be recovered from it

just avoid any hdds that use shingling (unless the drive is going to be used for things like archiving) and you'll do fine

Because even 2.5 ssds are half empty shells.

Apparently the ST5000DM000 is a SMR drive but I find nothing when I search for "SMR" or "shingling" in the product descriptions. Do they use a special buzzword for that or something like that?

>Actually believing this
I have 3 HDDs that have been seeding for 10 years 24/7. Still working fine no smart errors.

Do 2.5" HDDs create less heat?

2.5 is slower.

>2.5 is slower
You were saying?

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how does that onions taste faggot?

Pathetic

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No reason to use anything else than ssd in your desktop/laptop.
1To for 200€ is really good
>inb4 poorfags
pic related

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Nobody wanted the state of Nevada in their computer

>poorfag

>less noisy
is this true for multi-platter drives? My 6TB 3.5" WD Reds are driving me mad.

1TB for 200€ is pretty good.
Except when you want 10TB of sotrage and you would need another SATA controller just to fit that many SSDs.

>Except when you want 10TB of sotrage and you would need another SATA controller just to fit that many SSDs.
I said desktop/laptop
You wouldn't use a 10TB clusters on your desktop, would you ?

>do you legitimately use more than 1tb on your desktop?
Yes.

Checked

I use an SSD, like every non-poorfag enthusiast, however:
>more compatible with older cases
>more reliable
>greater storage capacity and speed (at higher capacities)

I have 6 TB of drives in my desktop, not counting the SSD for OSes. More than half of it is used up already.

real talk, how reliable are those 4tb WD my passport things?
I'm a poor laptopfag, so all my stuff/storage is backed up on one of them and it's rsync'd to a second one. Bought them both for 160 last black friday.
They're both dmcrypted ext4, so I don't have any worries in terms of corruption or whatever but I do worry about the drives dying.
I use them maybe once every six months too keep my documents and stuff backed up.
Should I buy 2 more this coming black friday for maximum redundancy? Can they last more than 10 years? Is there a better solution for me?
Thanks and sorry for the autism.

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Just use M.2 drives and cloud/NAS for mass storage.

and price and durability

Because "nand shortage."

go back

>>So what are some good HDDs or is it all just a lottery?
It's a lottery. You can only tell which drive models sucked and which were good in retrospect, after they've already been in service for years, but by then things have changed and there are new models that your data doesn't hold for. It's like how it's easy to look at a stock-market graph and see what you should have bought five years ago to get rich. But that doesn't give you any firm evidence of what you should buy today, the next five years will be different.

I couldn't find 2.5" HDDs for the storage that I wanted.

hard drive fail so much bc mechanics is imbalanced

causing to vibrate, over heat, physical wear

why they cannot make the mechanics balanced?

they are like bad motorcycle engine

crap

fpbp

bump

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l2encrypt yo shit

>do you legitimately use more than 1tb on your desktop?
Yes, with all my scat, shemale and lesbian porn

>do you legitimately use more than 1tb on your desktop?

yes

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>do you legitimately use more than 1tb on your desktop?
People use their desktop as a file server.

>compact PC cases are a meme anyway
Enjoy your hollow rgb gaming box user.
The ghost s1 can fit the same high end parts people use in their giant glass boxes.
People only hold on to them due to nostalgia.
Smaller is better user, ask me how i know.

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Unless you live in a capsule hotel in tokyo, you don't need to go any smaller than uATX. ITX or smaller just makes things harder to build, more difficult and noisier to cool, and limits your expansion options, for the sake of a size reduction that you don't even notice.

my body is ready for APUs with high-end performance

>do you legitimately use more than 1tb on your desktop?
Yes, I do. And I always wonder how could people live with 1TB in their system.

>A lot of compact PC cases don't have the space
Then don't buy a compact PC case.

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same person

>Compact PC's suffer lack of decent and reliable cooling
>No space for expansion
>Cases have to be incredibly specialised, thus expensive and not worth it

Are you actually retarded?
Maybe you're trying to mush the smaller is better meme because it's not just your PC that's small and pointless

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Is that a poem

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