I am currently using two 1.5tb hard drives from 2009. They are very slow and starting to grow in bad sector count. Running sha256sum on these takes forever and I feel like running that also wears them out quicker.
I am thinking about buying some bx500 ssds or western digital blue hard drives.
The computers will be on almost all the time. While the drives are not going to be mounted all the time, I think the power supply will still supply them with power, so I don't have to worry about ssd data retention, is that correct?
I will be running sha256sum frequently, and from my understanding ssds are not really worn out by reads while hard drives are, is that correct?
I don't have money issues so i'm leaning towards ssds. Is there any downsides to ssds in my situation?