Hello people. I was thinking about moving my movie collection to a SATA SSDs as my 10TB Toshiba drives are loud as shit and slow, however cheap.

Is this even worth it? I was looking up Samsung 870 8TB QVOs and apparently they are meh for the price, but yeah dead quiet and faster.

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Two questions. Are filled 7200 drives still fast enough to play 4K BD rips? I get some random Kodi crashes or stutters but that might not be the drive itself. Second is it even worth it storing huge amount of data on SATA SSDs? Do they go bad if not used?

Thanks I am noob in this field

  • velocity37@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Are filled 7200 drives still fast enough to play 4K BD rips?

    Even the el-cheapo acoustic tuned 14TB 5400RPM Western Digital externals (WD140EDFZ) can maintain sequential speeds in excess of 100MiB/s when full (~ 110-200MiB/s). That’s a much higher data rate than BD-ROM drives, so yes. Shouldn’t struggle at all unless your files are extremely fragmented and the drive heads are thrashing or you are accessing many files simultaneously.