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Techngro

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TechngroMar 03, 2024 12:28 AM

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I'm struggling to find a reason why anyone would buy a 500GB 5400 RPM 3.5in HDD in 2024. Is there some special use case for these that I don't know about?

Edit: And now this deal is frontpage, which is doubly hilarious. 😂

Last edited by Techngro March 3, 2024 at 10:29 AM.

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AmusedBike3678

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Quote from Techngro

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I'm struggling to find a reason why anyone would buy a 500GB 5400 RPM 3.5in HDD in 2024. Is there some special use case for these that I don't know about?

If you have a boot SSD that's 500GB or less you can make backups into it I guess?

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TwinPrime

Mar 03, 2024 01:24 AM

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I'm struggling to find a reason why anyone would buy a 500GB 5400 RPM 3.5in HDD in 2024. Is there some special use case for these that I don't know about?

Chia?

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opie1234

Mar 03, 2024 01:53 AM

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I'm struggling to find a reason why anyone would buy a 500GB 5400 RPM 3.5in HDD in 2024. Is there some special use case for these that I don't know about?

if all you want is a cheap NAS RAID for like the backing up of important docs and pics, this would do just fine.

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flamesky

Mar 03, 2024 02:02 AM

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flameskyMar 03, 2024 02:02 AM

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Documents may be fine, buy for images 😭

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TokenSid

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You could raid 0 two of these drives & get 270-300 mbs a second. Not as good as an SSD but until 1tb SSDs get back down to $35 again, it could be a stopgap, especially if you are into video editing or gaming…

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applezz

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I use one for my video pinabll machine.

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Oil_Burner

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Quote from Techngro

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I'm struggling to find a reason why anyone would buy a 500GB 5400 RPM 3.5in HDD in 2024. Is there some special use case for these that I don't know about?

Given the current prices of HDDs that are like $7-$9 per TB, this drive may not make any sense. However, still useful for home lab or DIY JBODs

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Techngro

Mar 03, 2024 02:38 PM

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If you owned a 1955 Chevy Bel Aire, and you needed some new pistons, would you buy the ones that go in a 2024 Camaro?

Is the only use case you can imagine building a brand new computer?

Well, your analogy really doesn't make sense. If you really had an old computer (analogous to a 1955 Chevy Bel Aire), you would be using an IDE (or older) interface, not SATA.

If you're using SATA anyway, the size, speed and capacity of this drive just doesn't make much sense. You can get a Seagate Barracuda 1TB 7200 RPM drive for $27 (per PC Part Picker). If this were a 2.5in drive, I could see a use for an old laptop even. But at 3.5in, it's difficult.

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nutriapeluda

Mar 03, 2024 03:33 PM

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Well, your analogy really doesn't make sense. If you really had an old computer (analogous to a 1955 Chevy Bel Aire), you would be using an IDE (or older) interface, not SATA.

If you're using SATA anyway, the size, speed and capacity of this drive just doesn't make much sense. You can get a Seagate Barracuda 1TB 7200 RPM drive for $27 (per PC Part Picker). If this were a 2.5in drive, I could see a use for an old laptop even. But at 3.5in, it's difficult.

Maybe they're running an OS that doesn't recognize drives higher than 2 TB but still want to create a raid array? I mean it's cheap so what the heck

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laleyan

Mar 03, 2024 04:30 PM

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I'm struggling to find a reason why anyone would buy a 500GB 5400 RPM 3.5in HDD in 2024. Is there some special use case for these that I don't know about?

Very few use cases. HDDs are preferred over SSDs for CCTV because of the constant writes. Some can use it as a very cheap backup drive laying around, etc.

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a3b2c1r46

Mar 03, 2024 04:36 PM

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Very few use cases. HDDs are preferred over SSDs for CCTV because of the constant writes. Some can use it as a very cheap backup drive laying around, etc.

Agreed but then the cost per TB comes into play. Having a 500gb drive on anything but the most antique DVR is going to yield low retention. Especially when this is the equivalent of $30 TB and the going rate is much lower than that.

HopP61633

Mar 03, 2024 05:09 PM

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HopP61633Mar 03, 2024 05:09 PM

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I'm struggling to find a reason why anyone would buy a 500GB 5400 RPM 3.5in HDD in 2024. Is there some special use case for these that I don't know about?

to "save" e-waste/landfill ... for a while. haha.

dnguyen800

Mar 03, 2024 05:44 PM

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Quote from Techngro

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I'm struggling to find a reason why anyone would buy a 500GB 5400 RPM 3.5in HDD in 2024. Is there some special use case for these that I don't know about?

Edit: And now this deal is frontpage, which is doubly hilarious. 😂

If this was a 2.5" hdd, I would get it since I have some USB enclosures and would use this for camera recording storage. Agree that 3.5" isn't very useful considering the amount of energy it's pulling and that you would need a big desktop or big USB enclosure to power it.

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