Lol wut?
You got the number for this "IT Guru" i'd love to call em up for hrs & hrs just to hear what other amazing insights they have and keep them form sharing such wisdom with others.
I've been gaming constantly & encoding videos pretty much every day on the same 1TB ADATA Nvme since 2018 with zero signs of degradation...and it still out slaps the other 8 drives in my pc (some ssds some spinnys)
In the end, not using best steady state storage technology is cutting your nose to spite your face. It does not make sense to sacrifice performance now over cost of a new future drive.
People should accept drives do not last for ever and one should plan for day they fail. Usual tenforum mantra - image backups, data backup etc, so when the day comes, put new drive in, restore backups.
I have no doubt a new gen of storage will supersede nvme at some point, and they will follow same pattern - expensive at first, then prices drop until reasonable as new pcs come on market using them in bulk.
To me storage drives are like tyres on cars - a disposable commodity.
My biggest gripe with new laptops is the battery is typically integrated, and replacing is not easy. I have a spare laptop where battery is integrated, but is dying. Sure you can do things to maximise battery life, but I think it totally goes against environmental objectives to throw the laptop away because battery is not easily replaced. I think integrated batteries should be banned.
In fact, I can see day coming when laptops come with say 1TB non volatile ram installed as part of mobo (some low end emmc pcs already do this with 64 GB).
I would prefer to replace the SSD every year if it must... But I'm not going back to HDDs... The same computer with a SSD can do 10 times more work in the same time than on conventional drives.
From hitting the power button to the Destop in 4.90 seconds, a complete clean install of Windows in under 8 minutes. No way you get that kind of performance on HDDs.
I have 2 machines left that are running their OS from a HDD, And at the first sign of degradation, I will switch them for SSDs too. I still use HDDs for large storages and backups. They are still the best bang for the buck when space is a factor.
@MamaBear, Your configuration is perfect, Leave it as is. Backup important stuff from the SSD to the HDD and your good to go.
Someone that still believes today that an HDD is better, is not a scammer. I believed the exact same thing until I got good proof...
There's good SSDs and there's the bad ones. At the moment samsungs are still going in. Things changes.
But I experienced real short SSD life in the "beginning" The later ones are still there today.
Some are expected to last over 260 years. And they act like it.
I believe HDDs are good for backups as long as they are kept safe in a place.
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