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The primary reason for me and many others to continue purchasing hard drives is cost. These units are notably cheaper than SSD counterparts, with some models coming in at $0.02 per GB of storage space — and that's for server (or NAS) grade hardware too. Then there's capacity. SSDs have grown in size over the years, but you'll still need to spend the big bucks and pick up enterprise-grade storage to store any more than 8 TB of data per drive. That's simply not the case with hard drives, which can be found in capacities ranging from just 1 TB to 24 TB for NAS. Picking up a 16 TB drive allows me
Why I bought a 16TB HDD instead of an 8TB SSDDhruv Bhutani Mar 30, 2026, 7:00 PM EDT Dhruv Bhutani has been writing about consumer technology since 2008, offering deep insights into the personal technology landscape through features and opinion pieces…
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