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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/chemhha on 2024-01-18 12:48:37+00:00.
Currently on my build I have a cheap Teamgroup 256GB M.2 NVME SSD and a old Toshiba 3TB 7200RPM HDD.
The SSD is at 65% health and is being used mainly for OS, programs a few games so I don't care if it suddenly dies. It's not the fastest but it works fine.
However all my personal data and games are on the old HDD which I keep since my first gaming build. It's almost 9 years old and hast 32569 hours (3,75 years) of active usage. It still works pretty fine even for gaming. The only game than ended up having some reading speed problems was Cyberpunk but this only happened in the endgame. This made me worry a bit because I thought the HDD was dying.
Athough SMART values say everything is fine. I ran a long surface test with Victoria and passed without problems. I'm still a bit concerned since I don't have a backup or anything.
Unfortunately my motherboard only has one M.2 slot so if I wanted to make a only SSD build I'd have to replace the current one.
I'm considering buying a 4TB HDD to make backups or maybe replace the older one. I have seen many good options with 256MB cache. I guess the higher the cache the better(?)
Also I thought about buying something like Intel Optane or an Hybrid HDD...
What would you choose?