SSD dominance has reached as great a level as it has completely replace hard drives in certain markets. Think for example what happened in the notebook sector, where it is no longer possible to buy a new computer with a mechanical storage unit, and the same applies to the PC sector, where even the cheapest computers (less than 200 euros) come with an SSD.

Looking at this scenario, we might think that hard drives, also known as hard drives, are dead, but the truth is that these types of drives are very much alive and well in some markets, and in fact still make a lot of sense in the mainstream consumer market, where they play a very important role as secondary storage solutions and for working in NAS systems.

On the other hand, the constant drop in prices that HDDs are immersed in only improves their value in this sense. We recently told you that the price per gigabyte of this type of drive will drop to less than a euro cent in 2025which means that the price per terabyte will be approximately 0.94 eurosan incredibly good number that has nothing to do with the price per terabyte of SSD.

Yes, I am fully aware that there is a significant performance difference between SSDs and HDDs, but given the low price of HDDs, I think there is no reason to eliminate them and that they are still a very interesting option with a lot of potential. potential. In my case, I have a 2TB SSHD with 8GB of NAND Flash cache mode I bought in 2016 to use as secondary storage and I’m very happy with it.

Thanks to the good experience this unit has given me, I am even clearer than the HDD They still have space in the general consumer sector, and that limiting yourself to SSD is a serious mistake in many cases. If you are on a very tight budget and need to have enough storage capacity, you are better off splitting your money between an SSD and HDD as a secondary drive.

Now it’s your turn, are you still using HDDs? What is your experience with this type of storage units? we read each other