Hard drives with 5 to 8 TB tested

SSDs are the future, but if you need a lot of storage space for your own data collection, HDDs with a high capacity are still a much cheaper solution. And as a data store for larger files, the disadvantage of significantly higher latency when accessing files compared to SSDs is not particularly significant. Although HDDs are also slower for sequential reading and writing, they can achieve transfer rates of 200 MB/s and more.