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Old Today, 06:21   Link #41
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NP.

As an aside, there is still good value in keeping HDDs around because of their longevity. SSDs need periodical use (i.e. just being powered on) so that the onboard memory controller can ensure the cells remain energized and the data is properly retained (the MC will, if needed, rewrite a weak cell to restore the charge back to normal levels). If you unplug an SSD and let it sit around, the electric charge in each cell will start to dissipate much faster than a HDD's. Compared to spinning mechanical platters, SSDs still have a shorter lifespan in terms of memory retention, even though they've come a long way since their first generations.

Case in point, I still have several thirteen-year-old SATA HDDs (and one PATA/IDE) from my father's computer that I keep around for archival purposes and I recently fired them up to find old pictures of his. I found that the data is still accessible, though not at a blazingly fast rate. An SSD, on the other hand, would have gone blank by now.

If you want to invest in an HDD (just for pure data/archival storage; it's still highly advised to have a M2 NVME or 2.5'' SATA SSD as home for your main partition just for sheer speeds), just make sure it's a CMR (Conventional Magnetic Recording) rather than a SMR drive (Shingled Magnetic Recording) and be careful as the manufacturers do not particularly go out of their way to specify it. Western Digital, one of the most reliable brands out there, was caught lying about that some time ago and they lost some goodwill from their clientele afterwards. SMRs have higher data density on the magnetic platters but since each cell is "shingled" (i.e. physically overlapping its neighbors), the MC has to work double time to make sure the adjacent cells do not get accidentally overwritten/corrupted, which results in inefficiency.

on the subject of HDD..

I own three pc. Only the newest one is fully SSD. The two older ones have an SSD for booting and an HDD for storage. Newest has a 10600k using Win 10, the older pc has a 2600k and it also use Win 10, the oldest one is literally a dinosaur with Q9500 and still runs Windows 7 - the HDD equipped on this one is probably as old as the ones you have, I use it for playing retro games.

using the 2600k pc to type this message now. Star Rail, a game I play everyday is stored in the HDD, works just fine.

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back on topic. It's now 2025. I do hope no problems arrive for Windows 10 users.
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Old Today, 08:59   Link #42
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Windows 10 users will be fine until a security weakness is found but Microsoft declares itself no longer obligated to patch it.
The bigger incentive to upgrade to Windows 11 will materialize when much of the software and hardware ecosystem begins migrating to 11 and no longer bothers looking back. Take computer games, for example: there are already many (MSFS2020, CP2077, Halo: Infinite, Forza Horizon 4, etc.) that have dropped support for Windows 7. The same process will happen to Windows 10 within a couple of years, and it'll be accelerated by developments e.g. new DirectX versions, changes to driver architecture/standards, etc.

The big problem is that Microsoft seems overly reliant on purchases of new hardware (esp. laptops) to drive up W11 adoption numbers. It's not a good strategy, especially in these economically troubled times...and with Microsoft recently instructing manufacturers like Dell, HP and Lenovo to no longer bundle Windows 11 Update 24H2 with 8th/9th/10th-gen Intel CPUs. Now, don't be alarmed: those CPUs will run Windows 11 just fine and will not deny you the 24H2 update, it's just that the hardware's security features are no longer sufficient in Microsoft's eyes and they want the OEMs to move on to more modern (and also more expensive) CPUs.
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