what are the benefits of HDDs over SSDs?
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1. At the moment, HDDs are cheaper per byte than SSDs, especially at larger capacities (2+ TB). So if you need a lot of storage cheaply, HDDs are the way to go. This advantage is decreasing every day, as flash memory gets cheaper and higher capacity, hard drives are not getting better at nearly the same rate.
2. SSDs can actually lose data if left unused for long enough. Hard drives are a very good way to store data for years or decades with very little chance of the data being corrupted.
3. SSDs wear out as they are written to. Hard drives on the other hand can be written to continuously for years without degrading. This makes hard drives useful in applications where there is a large amount of data being written, such as security system recordings.
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