--- title: 6 reasons I'm buying HDDs, not SSDs | daily.dev description: A personal account of why HDDs remain the preferred storage medium over SSDs for large-scale home storage needs. The six reasons covered include feeding a... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/6-reasons-i-m-buying-hdds-not-ssds-xu3uvz8if twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: 6 reasons I'm buying HDDs, not SSDs | daily.dev og:description: A personal account of why HDDs remain the preferred storage medium over SSDs for large-scale home storage needs. The six reasons covered include feeding a... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/6-reasons-i-m-buying-hdds-not-ssds-xu3uvz8if og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/Xu3UVZ8iF.png og:image:alt: 6 reasons I'm buying HDDs, not SSDs og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # 6 reasons I'm buying HDDs, not SSDs **[XDA Developers](https://daily.dev/sources/xda-developers)** · 6 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A personal account of why HDDs remain the preferred storage medium over SSDs for large-scale home storage needs. The six reasons covered include feeding a multi-bay Synology NAS, not needing high speeds for long-term archival data, the lack of affordable high-capacity SSDs (20TB+), cold storage requirements, off-site backup duplication following the 3-2-1 rule, and the significantly lower cost per GB of HDDs. The author currently runs a six-bay NAS with Seagate Ironwolf Pro and Exos drives and plans to continue expanding HDD storage rather than switching to SSDs for bulk storage. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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