[POLL] What are your favorite storage devices (HDD & SSD) for 2026?

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By goretsky
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Preferred storage solutions (HDD and SSD) for 2026  

23 members have voted

  1. 1. Preferred HDD Manufacturer(s)

    • Seagate (includes Samsung HDDs)
      3
    • Toshiba
      4
    • 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)
      2
    • Dell
      0
    • Dogfish Technology
      0
    • Eluktronics
      0
    • Emtec
      0
    • Essencore (includes Klevv)
      0
    • Fanxiang
      1
    • G.Skill
      0
    • Gigabyte
      0
    • Hewlett-Packard (includes HyperX)
      0
    • Hyundai
      0
    • Inland (aka Micro Center)
      0
    • Intel (Optane-only; choose Solidigm for SSDs)
      0
    • KingSpec
      1
    • Kingston Technology
      0
    • Kioxia (includes Lite-On and Toshiba)
      0
    • Leven
      0
    • Lexar (aka YTMC)
      0
    • MSI
      0
    • Mushkin
      0
    • MyDigitalSSD
      0
    • Neo Forza (includes Gold Key)
      0
    • Nextorage Japan
      0
    • Optiarc (includes NEC and SONY)
      0
    • OWC (aka MacSales)
      0
    • Oyen Digital
      0
    • Patriot Memory
      0
    • Pioneer
      0
    • PNY Technologies
      1
    • RITEK (includes RIDATA and Plextor)
      0
    • Sabrent
      1
    • Samsung Electronics
      13
    • SanDisk (includes Hitachi Global Storage Technology and Western Digital SSDs)
      4
    • Seagate
      1
    • Silicon Power
      0
    • Solidigm (includes Intel SSDs and SK hynix)
      1
    • Super Talent
      0
    • Team Group (includes T-Create and T-Force)
      0
    • Transcend Information
      0
    • ZTC
      0
    • Other: [specify below]
      0
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  • Poll closes on 01/01/27 at 06:59

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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.

Feel free to share favorite HDD and SSD model(s) as well as describe what you are currently using this year, plus any planned upgrades.

Regards,

Aryeh Goretsky

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Grand Master

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Seagate lyfe


MAIN RIG: Desktop: AGNX-CYBERSTORM: AMD Ryzen 5 9600X (6C12T @ 3.9Ghz)//32GB DDR5//500GB Seagate Firecuda 530 NVME SSD/16TB Seagate Exos X18 HDDScreenshotfrom2026-03-1322-01-33.thumb.png.1dfc2258304669c4f42919be0fbfcb8d.png

Dell Precision T3600 : Intel Xeon E5-2690 @ 2.9Ghz (8C/16T) // 32GB ECC RAM// Gigabyte Nvidia RTX2060 6GB//960GB INTEL DCS-4500//14TB SEAGATE IRONWOLF PRO//

Screenshotfrom2026-02-0622-25-54.thumb.png.6fa1d0fb0c7dddd5ccca83b304d614e1.png

PRECISON 3550 LAPTOP:Laptop1: Dell Precision 3550: Intel i5-10310 @ 4.4Ghz (4c8t) // 16GB RAM //Seagate Firecuda 530r 1TB NVME SSD Screenshotfrom2026-03-2213-24-57.thumb.png.84f90fba95b525c62b299a78f5ae0695.png

DELL LATITUDE 5400 Dell Latitude 5400 : Intel i5-8365U @ 1.6Ghz (4c8t) // 16GB RAM // Seagate Nytro XF1230 960GB SATA SSD

Screenshotfrom2026-03-3121-14-12.thumb.png.9a00bfd06ad69a96692de31bf7ff6052.png

DELL LATITWO: Dell Latitude 5400 : Intel i5-8365U @ 1.6Ghz (4c8t) // 16GB RAM // Seagate Barracuda 510 500GB NVME SSD

Screenshotfrom2026-01-0220-41-09.thumb.png.e6146962af1417526c8f06246fa6d9b2.png

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