Microsoft Trying to Kill HDD Boot Drives by 2023

Re:Microsoft Trying to Kill HDD Boot Drives by 2023 by lynguist on Wednesday June 08, 2022 @03:26PM (#31672712)

For the past fifteen years I found that a main drive of ca 300 GB is needed. 256 GB can cut it if you don’t have many larger files, but 128 GB doesn’t cut it.

I remember back in 2011 when SSDs started becoming popular people would cheap off and get 64 GB drives! And even recommended it for a well balanced system! It’s madness. I bought a 512 GB SSD in 2011 for my laptop, used a 256 GB SSD in a hand-me-down laptop, and 1TB in newer laptops from 2019-2020.

I also use ca 250 GB for rented cloud platforms.

You can’t recommend 128 GB.

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Re:Microsoft Trying to Kill HDD Boot Drives by 2023 by tpmx on Wednesday June 08, 2022 @04:51PM (#31673933)

These configs exist for a reason: The "developing world", "the on average poor countries", or whatever you might want to call them. This is the market that is currently getting the extreme low-end systems with the OS running on mechanical harddrives which of course is barely usable.

I think a 128 GB solid state drive for Windows and apps and a 1 TB mechanical HDD for media storage could be the basis for a really neat and cost effective little laptop. Just make sure the Downloads folder is mapped to the mechanical HDD by default...

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Re:Microsoft Trying to Kill HDD Boot Drives by 2023 by ephbit on Thursday June 09, 2022 @07:49AM (#31680020)

> ... and a 1 TB mechanical HDD for media storage ...

Agree. The problem - at least for laptops - appears to be that it's getting harder to find models that come with slots/interfaces for HDDs.

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