I put an SSD in my windows laptop, and have to agree that full ssd just spoils me for anything else. That said, it just isn't feasible to NEVER go to just a ssd like you said, for most people anyway. I have many gigabytes of music, and several hundred gigabytes of photos. So 1TB is bare minimum for me right now, plus I need to back all that up. Ideally I'd like 3 TB for backups, but right now have 2TB. Considering that 1TB flash drives cost in the mid hundreds of dollars, it just makes no sense right now to be 100% ssd. having 2 drives, an ssd for the OS and a traditional for most other files, is ideal. The fusion drive seems to hit the sweet spot between having a single drive and price and speed.
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I put an SSD in my windows laptop, and have to agree that full ssd just spoils me for anything else. That said, it just isn't feasible to NEVER go to just a ssd like you said, for most people anyway. I have many gigabytes of music, and several hundred gigabytes of photos. So 1TB is bare minimum for me right now, plus I need to back all that up. Ideally I'd like 3 TB for backups, but right now have 2TB. Considering that 1TB flash drives cost in the mid hundreds of dollars, it just makes no sense right now to be 100% ssd. having 2 drives, an ssd for the OS and a traditional for most other files, is ideal. The fusion drive seems to hit the sweet spot between having a single drive and price and speed.
Here is a little advice I have. Take it for what you want
I have a 6TB NAS for my FLAC and MKV library and I even back that up. Twice And store the alternating backup drives in a fireproof gun safe.
I have been in IT long enough to live by the rule "If you don't have your Data in three places, you don't have your data."
So, with that said; you can't beat SSD for your OS disk.
For storage, whatever is affordable at a speed that works is my suggestion. Then, back that stuff up. Ask around enough and you will find friends with spare TB drives floating around that may give them to you. Get an external RAID box and you are on your way.
Good luck!
Yes what were saying and most agree that a SSD for the OS and apps is what is ideal for most. A fast regular harddrive is fine for storing other info such as photos and music
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Here is a little advice I have. Take it for what you want
I have a 6TB NAS for my FLAC and MKV library and I even back that up. Twice And store the alternating backup drives in a fireproof gun safe.
I have been in IT long enough to live by the rule "If you don't have your Data in three places, you don't have your data."
So, with that said; you can't beat SSD for your OS disk.
For storage, whatever is affordable at a speed that works is my suggestion. Then, back that stuff up. Ask around enough and you will find friends with spare TB drives floating around that may give them to you. Get an external RAID box and you are on your way.
Good luck!
Let me share a story, I had a friend did what you did. Store multiple backup disk in his house. Well his house got robbed. Guess what all his backups full of music photos, child hood videos and more POOF gone!
Makes no sense to store all backups in onelocation.
What I do is I have a setup at my moms house in the basement in a corner that my main home Nas backups to automatically once a week through the internet. I also backup my main home NAS online through amazon servers and encrypt my backup
So I have 3 backups. Home, my mom house and the cloud
Great story. Thanks for sharing. I doubt anyone is going to run away with my 1000lb sixty minute fire proof gun safe bolted to the floor and wall, but you never know.
I think I will rotate a disk to my safe deposit box. Now you have me more paranoid
When I worked full time, different companies I worked for always used the offsite backup storage companies that picked up backups twice a week, kept certain yearly backups indefinitely for us, and there were some other schedules I can't remember.
Fireproof bunkers and all that good stuff.
Great story. Thanks for sharing. I doubt anyone is going to run away with my 1000lb sixty minute fire proof gun safe bolted to the floor and wall, but you never know.
I think I will rotate a disk to my safe deposit box. Now you have me more paranoid
When I worked full time, different companies I worked for always used the offsite backup storage companies that picked up backups twice a week, kept certain yearly backups indefinitely for us, and there were some other schedules I can't remember.
Fireproof bunkers and all that good stuff.
no problem. Always good to have an offsite backup. You just never know