Best HDD

[froggyboy604]

Are Hybrid hard drives as reliable as regular hard drives? I'm worried either the SSD will break first, or a part like a connector for the SSD in the drive will break over time. I think the tech inside of SSD is somewhat similar to RAM in computers, and RAM sometimes break a lot compared to other parts like hard drives in my experience.

I own a few regular hard drives from many years ago like the year 2002, and they still work pretty well whenever I turn on my very old computer.

A lot of schools, colleges, and work places use desktop and laptop computers with regular hard drives, and I don't hear about them breaking often compared to other parts like the power supply, RAM, and motherboard.

[Skeithex]

Are Hybrid hard drives as reliable as regular hard drives? I'm worried either the SSD will break first, or a part like a connector for the SSD in the drive will break over time. I think the tech inside of SSD is somewhat similar to RAM in computers, and RAM sometimes break a lot compared to other parts like hard drives in my experience.

I own a few regular hard drives from many years ago like the year 2002, and they still work pretty well whenever I turn on my very old computer.

A lot of schools, colleges, and work places use desktop and laptop computers with regular hard drives, and I don't hear about them breaking often compared to other parts like the power supply, RAM, and motherboard.

I do remember reading about someone saying that hybrids lack any fail safes as in if one side gives out the whole thing turns into a paper weight.

[froggyboy604]

I do remember reading about someone saying that hybrids lack any fail safes as in if one side gives out the whole thing turns into a paper weight.

I think regularly backing up your files is important. But, sometimes a drive may fail when you are backing up files which can make files harder to recover if there are no fail safes.

[Skeithex]

I do remember reading about someone saying that hybrids lack any fail safes as in if one side gives out the whole thing turns into a paper weight.

I think regularly backing up your files is important. But, sometimes a drive may fail when you are backing up files which can make files harder to recover if there are no fail safes.

depends on what the drive is for, not really sure if you can back up a PS4 drive.

[froggyboy604]

depends on what the drive is for, not really sure if you can back up a PS4 drive.

I agree it depends on what you use the drive for. If you mainly use the computer to surf the web, and do homework, occasionally using a USB hard drive or flash drive to backup your bookmarks, and homework files is a good idea.

Cloning your whole hard drive, and re-cloning it onto another drive can save you a lot of time because you don't need to manually reinstall your programs and operating system updates, copy files, and change settings once everything is re-cloned to a working drive.

I think you most likely need to remove the PS4 drive, and connect it to a regular desktop PC to use software like CloneZilla to clone the hard drive to a file stored on another hard drive.

[Skeithex]

depends on what the drive is for, not really sure if you can back up a PS4 drive.

I agree it depends on what you use the drive for. If you mainly use the computer to surf the web, and do homework, occasionally using a USB hard drive or flash drive to backup your bookmarks, and homework files is a good idea.

Cloning your whole hard drive, and re-cloning it onto another drive can save you a lot of time because you don't need to manually reinstall your programs and operating system updates, copy files, and change settings once everything is re-cloned to a working drive.

I think you most likely need to remove the PS4 drive, and connect it to a regular desktop PC to use software like CloneZilla to clone the hard drive to a file stored on another hard drive.

I wouldn't want to remove and add a HDD to a PS4 system often, I doubt the connectors were built to withstand that much stress.

[froggyboy604]

I wouldn't want to remove and add a HDD to a PS4 system often, I doubt the connectors were built to withstand that much stress.

I agree there is a chance that the connectors will break if you remove them often. American, European, and Canadian made connectors maybe more likely to last longer, but connectors made in factories in Vietnam, China, Malaysia, etc may not last as long.