[POLL] What are your favorite storage devices (HDD & SSD) for 2024?

By goretsky
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Preferred storage solutions (HDD and SSD) for 2024?  

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  1. 1. Preferred HDD Manufacturer(s)

    • Seagate (includes Samsung HDDs)
      6
    • Toshiba
      6
    • Western Digital (includes Hitachi Global Storage Technologies and SanDisk HDDs)
      16
    • Other (specify below)
      0

  2. 2. Preferred SSD Manufacturer(s)

    • Acer
      0
    • ADATA (includes XPG)
      0
    • Apacer
      0
    • ASUS
      0
    • Corsair
      0
    • Crucial (includes Micron)
      7
    • Dell
      0
    • Dogfish Technology
      0
    • Eluktronics
      0
    • Emtec
      0
    • Fanxiang
      0
    • G.Skill
      0
    • Gigabyte
      0
    • Hewlett-Packard (includes HyperX)
      0
    • Hyundai
      0
    • Inland (aka Micro Center)
      1
    • Intel (Optane-only; choose Solidigm for SSDs)
      1
    • KingSpec
      0
    • Kingston Technology
      2
    • Kioxia (includes Lite-On and Toshiba)
      1
    • Leven
      0
    • Lexar (aka YTMC)
      0
    • MSI
      0
    • Mushkin
      0
    • MyDigitalSSD
      1
    • Neo Forza (includes Gold Key)
      0
    • Nextorage Japan
      0
    • Optiarc
      0
    • OWC (aka MacSales)
      0
    • Oyen Digital
      0
    • Patriot Memory
      1
    • Pioneer
      0
    • Plextor
      0
    • PNY Technologies
      0
    • Sabrent
      2
    • Samsung Electronics
      16
    • Seagate
      3
    • Silicon Power
      2
    • Solidigm (includes Intel SSDs and SK hynix)
      3
    • Super Talent
      0
    • Team Group
      0
    • Transcend
      1
    • Western Digital (includes Hitachi Global Storage Technologies and SanDisk)
      8
    • ZTC
      0
    • Other [specify below]
      0

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Grand Master

goretsky Supervisor

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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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Currently using Samsung NvMe 500GB Boot Drive,  Samsung 860 Evo 1TB game SSD, and Western Digital 4TB Storage drive---Debating on updating Boot NVMe to 1TB possibly Western Digital or Samsung Model depending on what i can afford when birthday comes around in February, be nice to use 1 Dashboard in the future for all Drives--instead of Samsung Magician like currently, and Western Digital Dashboard for other drives

 

 

 

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HDD:

I recently went with 20TB Toshiba Enterprise MG10ACA20TE drives when upgrading my home server.

These drives had a 5 year warranty, seemed to get great reviews and were a fair bit cheaper than the equivalent Western Digital or Seagate drives here in the UK at approx. £300 per drive. Historically I'd used Western Digital drives when I last upgraded the server around 10 years ago.

SSD:

In my main PC I've used Samsung SSD's for the last decade. Currently I have a 2TB 970 EVO Plus NVMe SSD as the sole drive.

For my pfSense router / firewall I have a 128gb Patriot P300 M.2, in my home server / NAS I have a 2TB Patriot P300 for Docker containers and VM's. These were both chosen for their very low idle power consumption due to the devices been on 24/7.

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