There are poorfags who will still call SSDs a meme

100 terabytes is an absolutely obscene amount of data and few HDDs can live long enough to get even close in a typical Cred Forumsirgin workload, let alone ten times that. Not to mention that SSDs aren't worn down by idling or power cycles like HDDs.

Didn't somebody invent a data storage method that will last like 2 billion years or something not too long ago?

people actually use cloud services? jesus christ i puked a little

Wait, you mean the one in that photo where's she's playing piano in church in one frame then facefucked in the other?

all you need to know is the average consumer won't come close to writing enough data to a ssd to kill one, you will replace the drive with a bigger model or there will will another nand variation that will come to make it obsolete.

sure, 5-7 years ago when ssds were getting new firmware updates twice a week and controllers were still very young you could probably kill one, but nand and controllers have come a long way. a cheap samsung evo will last the average Cred Forumsidiot a long time. if you're paranoid or have money to burn then buy an enterprise level drive that will last the rest of your life.

>people actually use cloud services?

yes, but actually aware of using one? no. most people have no idea iphones upload everything to apple's could multiple times per day, even fbi fucked that up with the san benrardino shit.

Isn't No Man's Sky supposed to take 2 Billion years to explore?

>lol just store everything on the cloud!
>You don't need to save anything
>just stream everything you watch
>just delete all your games a weak after release date
Fuck off.

Super ultra mega HD movies will solve this problem.

I wonder what the dude who shills HDD's in every Speccy thread will do.

I had my HDD die on me all of a sudden. I had used my computer more than I had not for almost every day for almost half a decade.
And while I have heard that it puts unnecessary strain on the HDD, I put my computer into sleep mode. But when I got back from work I only got to the login screen when I opened up my computer again. And then it froze. Completely.
When I restarted my computer my PC just couldn't find the HDD, at all. As if it wasn't even connected.

It was some time ago already. But I still have the HDD. But it's fucked right? It's not possible to fix it is it?
I naïvely imagined that I would notice before the HDD got tired, instead of it just flat out dying on me. It would be neat if I could somehow backup its contents, but I have pretty much given up on it already.

sauce

Does BIOS recognize the drive? When you fire it up, it making some sort of sound and/or is it making the boot process hang while it's making said noise?

HDDs generally die because of the spinning bits going bad and SMART can only do so much to predict it. The tolerances involved are astoundingly ridiculous (the flying height of the read/write heads is some dozens of nanometers) and it only takes a small inconsistency to ruin the device beyond repair, it's really insane how those things last as long as they do.

you can pay data recovery people but it costs like hundreds of dollars

you're supposed to repair it in a dust free room with the right equipment and stuff

Is that mayli? ?

>look at our 256GB SSD, it's cheaper than a 1TB HDDD

Meanwhile

If the prices don't become comparable, it'll never replace HDDs

4 times as much is not comparable

>Intel SSDs brick themselves into read only at the first sight of wear
well okay then. I wonder if OS can still boot off it.

If you see it in BIOS, you can try recovery software. Otherwise it would cost too much to get any data off it even if you find a service that can do that

By Cred Forums standards:
Meme = something that has a lot to talk about.

Doesn't mean if its bad or good.

I had something similar happen in the past. I ended up booting to a USB flash drive and plugging the HDD into a USB cradle. Was able to read and backup the data from it, but at an incredibly slow rate. I later found out that WD Green drives and their shitty power saving functions caused the load cycle count to climb to almost 100,000 - which is way beyond what any drive should be getting close to after five or so years of use.

>Does BIOS recognize the drive?
Nah it doesn't. That's the thing. Nada. As if nothing is even connected. No sound. No nothing. As if it was nothing but a brick in the computer.

And interestingly, I never once noticed anything odd about prior to it dying. It never made any weird sounds, and I did actually listen for them but never heard anything. And I also made a routine check up earlier in the year where I looked for disk errors, and everything was in top condition at that time too.

Yeah. I can't afford that. I looked into it, but I need to ship it back and forth overseas and the total costs are just staggering. I'd rather try to do something myself even if I completely kill all data. Assuming any old data is still intact.

I always wanted to hope that it was just some connector malfunction of some kind, but I couldn't get any spare parts / hdd of similar model, so I never really got that far on that front.

Old HDDs are more stable than newer ones

>a western digital company
Just buy WD, Jesus.

>the rise of the cloud continues to reduce the need for high-capacity local storage

Yeah sure, just let me upload 50 GB to the cloud real quick.

I need huge HDD to store my animes. BD rips get fucking huge. 40+ gigs for a series. 15 gb for a good movie rip. I want to store all those too.

They forget to mention that by the time 512GB SSDs sink below CURRENT 1TB prices, you will be able to buy 16TB for the current 2TB prices.

It's 4x as much now, but like the article said it may be 2x as much in 3 years. And considering how much faster SSDs are, most consumers who don't need tons of data storage will go for it. I can't even imagine booting off of an HDD, and if you can get a 2 TB SSD for $125-150 most people will be set.

>and plugging the HDD into a USB cradle
I suppose I should look into that.

Windows 8.1 has a read only safe mode IIRC.

Those are old TLC SSDs, shit number of rewrites.

Current TLC (See 850 EVO) destroys all of them easy, they would last more than 2 years even under torture test like those that lasted 0.5-1.8 years.
MLC and improved MLC shits all over both of them (850 PRO and 950 PRO).

Controller will shit the bed before the memory as usual.

>trusting cloud storage

haha k. have fun when the site and all the user passwords gets hacked, or they start charging you more for storage, or they just lookat all your shit in general.

Most consumers buy a pre built and never add anything to it

even twice as much is too much. If I can get a 10 TB HDD for the same price as the 1tb SSD, I'll probably go with the HDD

So it doesn't even attempt to spin up? That's weird, usually a dead drive makes at least some signs of attempted life, most famously the dreaded clicking sound of the drive trying to load the heads and failing.

HDD prices have been slow for a long time already, especially if you count the pre-flood prices. I'll give you 3+ TB drives being cheaper than before, but mostly it's just the ultra high end market getting stacked with even higher end drives like that HGST's 10 TB helium wizardry drive.

Cloud is the shadiest shit ever

We just need wifi to get more available and faster in the US so people can use a NAS server for entertainment and just use SSDs for desktops/laptops.