October 10, 20215 yr Traditional HD storage device sizes have been taking a recent jump, fortuitously, just in time for the enormous amounts of data people are being asked to store. But how much storage is "Enough", and how much is "Too much?" Especially as the prices of these huge new drives drop. Would you buy one of these newer super-drives? Best Internal Hard Drives 2021 We are all connected..... To each other, biologically...... To the Earth, chemically...... To the rest of the Universe atomically. Devons rigIntel Core i5 13600K @ 5.1GHz / G.SKILL Trident Z5 RGB Series Ram 64GB / GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 5070 Ti GAMING OC 16G Graphics Card / Sound Blaster Z / Meta Quest 3 VR Headset / Klipsch® Promedia 2.1 Computer Speakers / ASUS ROG SWIFT PG279Q ‑ 27" IPS LED Monitor ‑ QHD / 1x Samsung SSD 850 EVO 500GB / 2x Samsung SSD 860 EVO 1TB / 1x Samsung - 970 EVO Plus 2TB NVMe / 1x Samsung 980 NVMe 1TB / 2 other regular hd's with up to 10 terabyte capacity / Windows 11 Pro 64-bit / Gigabyte Z790 Aorus Elite AX Motherboard LGA 1700 DDR5
October 10, 20215 yr For a NAS, yeah. Just right. For my system, I'm all digital with 4 in total. That makes plenty of room with different simulators on different drives. Nice and tidy. Richard Chafey i7-8700K @4.8GHz - 32Gb @3200 - ASUS ROG Maximus X Hero - NVidia RTX5080 - 3840x2160 Res - KBSim Gunfighter - Thrustmaster Warthog dual throttles - Crosswind V3 pedalsMSFS 2024 All the aircraft
October 11, 20215 yr Nope. Have no need for such a huge amount of storage. And they are mechanical drives, so susceptible to damage. If someone needs that much storage fair enough, but for me HDD's seem like outdated tech these days.
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