I keep reading that these HDDs are just not good as a daily HDD. I'm currently in a situation where in I found someone selling several 6TB skyhawks that are 4 years old for a third the price of a brand new WD Blue 8TB....
Now I'm not that picky and I currently have a 4tb WD purple as my D drive which came with the second hand SFF computer that I bought. My C drive is in an SSD and that is where i store my VMs and app data. the purple is used for my data hoards like ISOs and family pictures and videos. Within this year I'm planning to converting this HDD as a storage for immich so the family can 'stream' our photos and videos from the network. So that would mean more 'reads'.
Anyways so I'm really considering moving from the WD purple to the Seagate skyhawk mainly due to the cheap price. I'm ok to wait a bit longer for reads as I will have most of my VMs on the faster SSD.
Any thoughts?