I haven't had a spinning hard disk in a PC in years now. I go to no extremes.I know i probably worry way too much and still goto extremes that others probably don't go for, but guess just me in that regard,
The way I look at it
1). I'm spending the money on the drive to increase my system performance. Why would I want to reduce system performance by putting stuff back on older spinning drives.
2). I make backups of my drives from time to time, so in the event that a drive did die, I wouldn't lose all of my data. These backups should still be happening regardless of whether the data is on an SSD or HDD...so no more effort on my part than there would otherwise be.
3). I've yet to have an SSD die on my at home. I probably have 20 of them, some are nearing 14 years old and I never have done anything on any of them to reduce writes.
I also am still in the non liquid cooler camp. For me, It's not worth the risk and I think a solid air cooler works just fine and my 3 years of system stability proves that for me that is the case even with my most powerful system. This way I don't have to deal with radiator mounts, and space constraint issues in my box.i tend to panic at times with worry, why i so far refused to even get a liquid cooler for my CPU, as still scared as well of that that its gonna leak lol, but next Processor in the future i might have to force myself to not worry on that, and use PC as normal and hopefully i don't panic checking the system constantly lol
I currently run a 12 core AMD Ryzen 9-5900X with a BeQuiet Dark Rock Pro 4 and a i absolutely love it. My wife has a 6 core Ryzen 5-3600x with the stock AMD cooler and while it works fine....it makes so much more noise than my Dark Rock Pro 4. My PC is less than a foot from me, and my wife's PC is 5 feet away and I can hear her stock fan over my cooler.
My Computers
System One System Two
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- OS
- Windows 11 Pro
- Computer type
- PC/Desktop
- Manufacturer/Model
- Beelink SEI8
- CPU
- Intel Core i5-8279u
- Motherboard
- AZW SEI
- Memory
- 32GB DDR4 2666Mhz
- Graphics Card(s)
- Intel Iris Plus 655
- Sound Card
- Intel SST
- Monitor(s) Displays
- Asus ProArt PA278QV
- Screen Resolution
- 2560x1440
- Hard Drives
- 512GB NVMe
- PSU
- NA
- Case
- NA
- Cooling
- NA
- Keyboard
- NA
- Mouse
- NA
- Internet Speed
- 500/50
- Browser
- Edge
- Antivirus
- Defender
- Other Info
- Mini PC used for testing Windows 11.
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- Operating System
- Windows 10 Pro
- Computer type
- PC/Desktop
- Manufacturer/Model
- Custom
- CPU
- Ryzen 9 5900x
- Motherboard
- Asus Rog Strix X570-E Gaming
- Memory
- 64GB DDR4-3600
- Graphics card(s)
- EVGA GeForce 3080 FT3 Ultra
- Sound Card
- Onboard
- Monitor(s) Displays
- ASUS TUF Gaming VG27AQ. ASUS ProArt Display PA278QV 27” WQHD
- Screen Resolution
- 2560x1440
- Hard Drives
- 2TB WD SN850 PCI-E Gen 4 NVMe
2TB Sandisk Ultra 2.5" SATA SSD
- PSU
- Seasonic Focus 850
- Case
- Fractal Meshify S2 in White
- Cooling
- Dark Rock Pro CPU cooler, 3 x 140mm case fans
- Mouse
- Logitech G9 Laser Mouse
- Keyboard
- Corsiar K65 RGB Lux
- Internet Speed
- 500/50
- Browser
- Chrome
- Antivirus
- Defender.