Stargazing Skywatching Kit Best external hard drives 2025: Top HDD and SSD models References By Tantse Walter Contributions from Rowena Cockett, Chris McMullen, Mina Frost last updated May 16, 2025 ...

SSD vs HDD is a hot contest right now, and hybrid drives offer solid middle ground. As of now, picking between SSDs, HDDs, and SSHDs is quite tricky.

I remember conventional wisdom was that HDD's are better than SSD's for write-intensive workflows, is that still the case in 2018? Not sure that was ever true, and it definitely isn't in 2018.