In reply to a post by jchamier:

Tell Apple, they went SSD for all their products long before others. Have you tried macOS (or Windows 10 or 11) on a mechanical drive? Nobody has time for that anymore. Using SSD gets rid of the need to defragment, as the whole file system responds with the same latency.

I did say storage, my main NAS have mechanical drives, 3.5 inch ones, no need for speed for a Nas, certainly on a 1Gbit network. I do have a SSd sata on the Raspberry Pi NAS I built, mainly for power efficiency, but I have also got an old 500Gb 2.5 inch spinny drive on there that came out of my brother's PVR, it stopped working in the PVR, so I got a new drive for him, but it works fine in the Pi NAS. Not going to use it for anything important, just video files to play back on the TV.
I should have got a spinny 2.5inch for my dock, it would have been cheaper.


I have tried macOS on a mechanical drive, granted it was on a old machine, it was okay, I have also tried Windows 11 on a mechanical drive, just for the fun of it, I even installed it via DVD, well Blu-ray, LOL. Once booted it was not too bad to be honest, when opening large apps it was a bit slow or loading large files

For the user there have been no need to defrag for years, I know it happens in the background, but we have not had to do it for years, was it Xp it vanished?


Cost wise, mechanical drives are cheaper, oh yeah, all my external drives are mechanical

Be careful with Fanxiang, I thought about one for my Pi Nas, but the reviews were not good, they also have no cache, so for a SSD are pretty slow.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New year to you and yours from this side of the border, just about on the English side of the border.

In reply to a post by zyborg47:

I did say storage, my main NAS have mechanical drives, 3.5 inch ones, no need for speed for a Nas, certainly on a 1Gbit network.

Many people don’t separate, and with laptops being a high percentage of home computing, plugging in external drives to laptops is frustrating when you’re sitting on a sofa. I have 256GB in my laptop, but friends have 1Tb or more.