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6 reasons I'm buying HDDs, not SSDs
I need terabytes on terabytes, which has a terrible cost.
Most people, including the team here at XDA, will readily say that replacing an old hard drive with an SSD is the single most important performance boost that you can make. It's true, mostly, especially if that speedy SSD is going to be the main storage drive in your computer. But there are some storage situations where the hard drive is still king, and SSDs haven't quite got what it takes.
