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We are digital librarians. Among us are represented the various reasons to keep data -- legal requirements, competitive requirements, uncertainty of permanence of cloud services, distaste for transmitting your data externally (e.g. government or corporate espionage), cultural and familial archivists, internet collapse preppers, and people who do it themselves so they're sure it's done right. Everyone has their reasons for curating the data they have decided to keep (either forever or For A Damn Long Time (tm) ). Along the way we have sought out like-minded individuals to exchange strategies, war stories, and cautionary tales of failures.

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Filled HDD speeds and SATA SSD drives longevity (alien.top)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hello people. I was thinking about moving my movie collection to a SATA SSDs as my 10TB Toshiba drives are loud as shit and slow, however cheap.

Is this even worth it? I was looking up Samsung 870 8TB QVOs and apparently they are meh for the price, but yeah dead quiet and faster.

Two questions. Are filled 7200 drives still fast enough to play 4K BD rips? I get some random Kodi crashes or stutters but that might not be the drive itself. Second is it even worth it storing huge amount of data on SATA SSDs? Do they go bad if not used?

Thanks I am noob in this field

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are filled 7200 drives still fast enough to play 4K BD rips?

Even the el-cheapo acoustic tuned 14TB 5400RPM Western Digital externals (WD140EDFZ) can maintain sequential speeds in excess of 100MiB/s when full (~ 110-200MiB/s). That's a much higher data rate than BD-ROM drives, so yes. Shouldn't struggle at all unless your files are extremely fragmented and the drive heads are thrashing or you are accessing many files simultaneously.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks really helpful