There's almost no good reason to prioritize HDDs over SSDs in 2025. Here's why you should replace your hard drive with an SSD, pronto.

Pitted against the speed of solid-state drives (SSDs), an old-fashioned hard disk drive might seem antiquated. But there’s still good reason to use one.

Or a hard drive. Perhaps you're helping a buddy out with a build and a 120mm fan might make all the difference to thermals, or they need some extra drive space to tide them over until they can buy ...

Cost as of this writing: $479 to $504, depending on your case ...

Seagate is a name you can trust when it comes to hard drives, and right now, their 24TB external hard drive is dropping jaws with a price that works out to just about $1.10 per gigabyte ($279) on ...

120TB hard drives are coming, thanks to new Seagate tech New hard disk tech demonstration shows potential for multi-layered granular media, with massive storage capacities coming in the future.

I think it’s time to call it—I don’t need a hard drive in my main PC anymore, and neither do you. Here’s why you should make the switch.