SSD or hard drive?

I had many more HDDs crap out on me than SSDs in recent years, and I had a heapload of both.

With the exception of Chinese/Taiwan SSDs, they're always going to have a lower failure rate than HDDs.

Taobao is where I get my groceries by the way

If you work in video production 19TB is basic bitch tier. Can't speak for anything else though, maybe data analytics?

Oh yea, because the storage device that fails if you shout at it is obviously more reliable.

i mean just moving the computer around (and thus the HDD) fast could make it die, but they're supposed to be protected against that, as well as from dropping, because otherwise they'd be too fragile to be practical consumer items

do you want to actually have space to store shit? pick HDD
do you want to run poorly optimized windows 10 games without waiting for 3 minutes each time you die? pick an SSD

just stick with tried and true hdd OP

One of the reasons dacenters switched to SSDs (specifically Samsung and Intel SSDs) was the replacement rate was way lower than HDDs and the labor involved is a significant cost for them. HDDs are slow and unreliable.

Take into account the data capacity though.

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Not really for certain drives.

I know all about bitrot in unpowered SSDs but I've never heard before that it could happen to HDDs as well. I thought HDDs were immune to this shit as long as you stored them in a cool, dry place away from magnets. You sure this isn't FUD / snake oil?
I mean, there are lots of documentation, benchmarks and even whitepapers on SSD bitrot, it's a tested and proven fact that it happens. But nothing on HDDs, only rumors and hearsay on internet forums. If you Google this subject almost all results are related to this program.
I've seen many HDDs stored for almost 10 years that were working perfectly and with all data intact when powered up. So even if this theory is true, I think running a full refresh 4x/year as suggested in the program page is overkill and might end up actually reducing the drive lifespan - once a year should be more than enough. I admit I'm also a bit worried about data corruption by using a program that reads and rewrites every sector of the disk (though Puran Defrag has been my favorite defrag software for years and never had problems with it).