[POLL] What are your favorite storage devices (HDD & SSD) for 2023?

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Preferred storage solutions (HDD and SSD) for 2023  

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  1. 1. Preferred HDD Manufacturer(s)

    • Seagate (includes Samsung HDDs)
      9
    • Toshiba
      5
    • Western Digital (includes Hitachi Global Storage Technologies and SanDisk HDDs)
      37
    • Other (please describe)
      0

  2. 2. Preferred SSD Manufacturer(s)

    • Acer
      0
    • ADATA (includes XPG)
      1
    • Apacer
      0
    • ASUS
      0
    • Corsair
      0
    • Dell
      0
    • G.Skill
      0
    • Gigabyte
      0
    • Hewlett-Packard
      0
    • Inland (aka Micro Center)
      0
    • Intel (only Optane; see Solidigm for SSDs)
      0
    • Kingston Technology
      2
    • Kioxia (includes Lite-On and Toshiba)
      1
    • Leven
      0
    • Lexar
      0
    • Micron (includes Crucial)
      1
    • MSI
      0
    • Mushkin
      0
    • MyDigitalSSD
      0
    • Neo Forza (includes Gold Key)
      0
    • Nextorage Japan
      0
    • Optiarc
      0
    • OWC (aka MacSales)
      0
    • Patriot Memory
      0
    • Pioneer
      0
    • Plextor
      0
    • PNY Technologies
      0
    • Sabrent
      2
    • Samsung Electronics
      36
    • Seagate Technology
      0
    • Silicon Power
      1
    • Solidigm (includes Intel's SSDs and SK hynix)
      2
    • Team Group
      0
    • Transcend
      0
    • Western Digital (includes Hitachi Global Storage Technologies and SanDisk)
      5
    • Other (please describe)
      0

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Hello,

This is the new yearly poll for sharing your preferred storage solutions and covers both hard disk drives and solid-state drives.  The previous year's poll can be found here.

Please feel free to describe what you are currently using this year, plus any planned upgrades.

Regards,

Aryeh Goretsky

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For my network storage, Seagate has been rock solid for me. For ssd, i have tried a couple different brands, but Samsung (voted for) and XPG have not let me down yet

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Seagate for HDDs - replaced Western Digital - due to dropping prices for the Deskstar half-height HDDs - the seriously increased storage for the size.  Example - my last Deskstar has four times the capacity of the Deskstar that it replaced - despite it costing half as much.  Price for terabyte is now all of $25 per terabyte vice $100 per terabyte.  Scary shocker - the two drives are physically the same size.

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I no longer recommend Samsung because of recent problems with their firmware. I bought a 990 after their first firmware fix but I still see problems with inconsistent performance in the SEQ1M Q1T1 test. Instead I use an SK Hynix Platinum P41 which has performed flawlessly so far.

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On 28/04/2023 at 19:02, PGHammer said:

 Price for terabyte is now all of $25 per terabyte vice $100 per terabyte.  Scary shocker - the two drives are physically the same size.

Gotta shop around for deals. Got my last external for $15 per terabyte. Saw a deal for an internal 16tb for $9 per TB.

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