What are the reasons behind the continued relevance of HDDs for data storage?

Question

What drives people to even consider HDDs for data archiving purposes, considering the many benefits it’s been demonstrated that SSDs can offer?

Answer 1

HDDs seem to remain a contender in the data storage market because they are cheaper per gigabyte. For users who desire numerous data at a reasonable cost while being able to bear long access latency times, and where the installation itself is not subjected to shock or vibration, HDDs are appropriate solutions.

Comments

I feel hdd is better for long term storage.  SSD is better for files you will be accessing often.

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Most of my relatives are spending their earnings for some expensive SSDs for their PCs
So that's why whenever i visit them, their rooms has lots of unused HHDs.

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^Okay, what would you recommend for someone who connects it every few months to back up their computer. For me, pictures are the most important and other than that I back up the document section on my laptop... so I delete on my hard drive and upload again. I don't move my hard drive often but worry about the one time it may fall... you never know.

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Everybody says SSDs don't work for long-term storage though.

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I am planning on buying one, from pictures and content, which one should I buy for it to last, mind you.

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I'm new to all this, so I apologize in advance.

I am looking to storing (copies) my photos in a secondary backup, which would either be an ssd or hdd but I don't know which to go with. I have a phone, but I don't trust cloud services.

 I want a long-term one. Every month or depending on how much pictures I take, I will put them in one of those 2 options. I want something that I can easily recover data from in case it gets damaged or accessing it after a couple of decades ( I don't know if that's possible)



A few questions if you don't mind.



I'm hearing an SSD is more durable, reliable and overall better. Why is it that an HDD would be the better option for the long term when it comes to photos?


Are these secured? If one steals it, can they access my data?

The photos that I will put into them, how does the date, time, and location get affected? For example, let's say I took a photo and put it into both of them, and a year later, I want to put it in a different phone or let's say a computer, will the date, and time change?

How long does an HDD last, and can I keep it forever until I run out of storage, or should I upgrade, and how often?

How fast is an HDD compared to an SSD?



Thanks in advance!

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I plan on getting a 1tb nvme drive but I wanna know if it's worth keeping my 2tb hdd I already had for software other than games and general files. I won't lie I don't know if it works like that or not. Just so I have more game space and I'm not loading up my drives close to max.

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I always use HDD, ssd is mad expensive for no reason, like u really spendimg 100 dollars more to wait 4 seconds less, lmao

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What about for storing pictures, videos, and documents?