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Originally Posted by cRiPpLe_rOoStEr
Forget hard drives, nowadays it's better to use an SSD as they have no moving parts, which by the way would increase the need for heat rejection.
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Not exactly true. Hard drives can actually be more reliable, or at least have a better cost to reliability relationship.
SSD's are all ticking time bombs in their own right. I've had far more SSD's die than hard drives, and I've worked on a fair share of computers and electronics. SSD's are actually rated to receive only so may writes. That's because every time you write to them you are actually damaging them.
This is why it's best to 1) be generous with your RAM. Whenever a computer runs out of RAM it starts treating the storage drives as RAM (so avoid the M1 Mac's for this reason). 2) be generous with your SSD size as well. Modern tech will spread the writes out all over the SSD meaning fewer writes in the same spots over time. 3) Get an SSD with onboard cache. Not only with certain files that need to be written and read often will do so faster, the onboard cache, like RAM, will take the brunt of the reads and writes preserving the actual SSD. And 4) use a hard drive for whatever you don't need to run fast. This will place less stress on your much more expensive SSD and can still outlast the expensive SSD.