Hi.

If you run one computer the most, what type of drive is your only/main one?

Thanks.

My desktop has two SSD and two magnetic HDDs. The internal drive is SSD, the others are USB. I use the HDDs because I have them, and they still work. I don't expect to buy another.

I'm 'other' - my main desktop uses a RAID0 array of 10k RPM hard drives for the boot drive (on a DRAM-backed hardware controller at that) - it also has SSDs (both PCIe and SATA) and more typical 7200 rpm drives (some in RAID) for more storage, so it really is a grab bag of sorts. My laptop is a pretty standard mechanical drive, and I've got some other boxen that run SSHD or SSD storage.

I said 'other', as it is a M2-SSD as against a 3.5/2.5 SSD - otherwise, my other often used computers use SSD & HDD, about equally - with some occasionally using mSDHC cards, SDHC cards, & pendrives.

My new desktop has SSD, while the laptop is still HDD — they didn't do SSD when the IBM Thinkpads were in production!

Gaming rig is all 2.5" SSDs. Laptop and main computer are both NVME drives. NAS is 2 WD reds and NAS backup is a Seagate spinning drive that gets powered on whenever I do a NAS backup. I used to be worried about using SSDs for the main drives but I am not worried any more. The SSDs in my gaming rig are about 4 years old and have a ton of life left. Everything else is backed up so I don't care: if something fails, no data loss, just inconvenience.

What is a "main" drive? My OSes are on small SSD. My data is on much larger rotating rust RAID1.

The 3rd entry in the Poll should have read: 'Solid State Hybrid Drive'.

Perhaps bad wording on my part. I always use SSDs for both OS and storage. When I ran Linux as a desktop, I had a smaller SSD as the OS drive and a larger one as /home. All of my systems get backed up to a NAS with spinning drives, which also gets backed up, so I am not worried about data loss.

The poll results so far are about how I'd have expected them to be.

SSD. Everything I own is SSD's after seeing how much more responsive a system is with SSD's than HDD's.

My actual computer is a i7 laptop with a legacy rotating 1TB hard drive.

My desktop computer (now not working, not sure if it is a power supply unit or motherboard problem) contains HDDs too (one as system drive and 4 HDDs for data storage) plus a number of SATA HDDs on docking stations and USB boxes.

My work computer (much newer) uses a M-2 SSD.

I have a newer laptop that has an SSD, but I don't use it much. I bought when I though old reliable was having issues, but old reliable is still chugging along.

Frankly, for the way I use computers--forums, blogging, email, video, news--the few extra seconds I can gain by using an SSD don't make much never mind.

Desktop - 2 SSD (1 Debian Linux, 1 Win 10) 2 HDA
Old Thinkpad SSD upgrade - Debian
New Thinkpad SSD Debian + Win 10
NAS HDA's (RAID) + USB BOOK
Intel NUC M2 SSD

I use the new Thinkpad more than any other machine. Run Debian 99% of the time.

I could never go back to HDD. I've been using SSDs since 2013. From boot times to application responsiveness to Windows Updates, spinning drives for desktop workloads generally suck. Even if you have an older machine with an HDD, you can give it a new life very quickly/easily/cheaply using one of those Kingston upgrade/clone kits (for example).

Less critical for server workloads, where generally anything in RAID10 is acceptable for basic requirements. However, we have a client server with 4 Dell enterprise SSDs (960GB or something I think) in RAID 10 with an 8GB hardware RAID controller and that thing is an absolute beast.

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