Do you still use regular HDD’s? Why and what for?
I have about 10 Portable 2.5" HDD’s I somehow built up over the years, plus an additional 10 2.5" HDD’s laying around that aren’t in enclosures at the moment. I’m tossing up between wiping them all and disposing of them, and buying an enclosure to use them in a NAS. 7 of them are reasonable at between 2TB and 4TB capacity. It’s just, they’re so fucking slow. Is it really worth it to keep using HDD’s in this day and age, or should I accept that their time has come and throw them out? I think I will just be dissapointed and annoyed with how slow they are if I keep them around and use them for hosting media on a plex server - But I haven’t tested them out for that so I’m not sure.
I’m leaning towards wiping and getting rid of them. Any suggestions for a use I might find for them? Are you still using a HDD? Why? What do you use it for? I feel like the time it takes for shit to load on them isn’t worth it and it just detracts to heavily from whatever I’m doing on a computer.
I have a couple, one for timeshift backups and one for basic archival/backups. They were from old builds and a family member’s old laptop. Since I’m rarely using them I’m hoping they’ll have good longevity. SSDs will lose data over time if left alone too long I think.