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speedy hard drive?

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  • Cisco001
    Cisco001 Posts: 4,233 Forumite
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    itGuyUK80 wrote: »
    Speed, as I said hate waiting...

    A few factors has to be taken into account... Source Disk and Destination disk. If different speeds or if using USB 2.0 then it really makes no difference...

    I regularly backup about 250/500GB per week, depending on what I'm doing and I do not want to wait hours to complete backup. So SSHD is cheaper and more GB/per £ just a little slower than SSD.

    It is horses for courses.

    You need usb 3.0
  • colin79666
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    John_Gray wrote: »
    Just an additional 0.
    Twelve years ago, we used to work with hard disks on large Compaq servers which ran at 15,000 rpm. They cost an absolute fortune!
    The HP Proliants still use those drives, although SAS now rather than SCSI :)
  • tronator
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    itGuyUK80 wrote: »
    Speed, as I said hate waiting...

    A few factors has to be taken into account... Source Disk and Destination disk. If different speeds or if using USB 2.0 then it really makes no difference...

    I regularly backup about 250/500GB per week, depending on what I'm doing and I do not want to wait hours to complete backup. So SSHD is cheaper and more GB/per £ just a little slower than SSD.

    It is horses for courses.

    Why would anybody wait for a backup to finish? It's done automatically in the background by a cron job.

    It would be like watching paint dry ;)
  • itGuyUK80
    itGuyUK80 Posts: 81 Forumite
    tronator wrote: »
    Why would anybody wait for a backup to finish? It's done automatically in the background by a cron job.

    It would be like watching paint dry ;)

    Majority of home users would suitable to background jobs to snapshot or sync their data..

    As I said horses for courses.. Due to the nature of my work automatic jobs is not be suitable...
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