The user profile directory? Almost everything is in there somewhere.

Not that it matters much. If the PSU went out and took everything with it i’d only lose a few hours work.

It’d be annoying but i’d probably be a lot more annoyed with having to replace the hardware.

It’d only take a few hours to restore from backup but it’d take several days to get a similar machine.

Realistically if this thing goes out i’m just going to spin it up in a VM on one of the other machines I have on hand until I can find a suitable upgrade to replace it with rather than trying to put it back like it was as it’s long overdue to be replaced anyway.

Someone posted a graph and at current rates the cost per GB should converge around 2030 assuming current trends continue.

I figure sooner as i’d assume HDD costs will increase as the sales volume goes down

Almost all consumer goods are already SSD at this point.

Anytime a HDD goes out in anything at this point it gets replaced with a SSD.

Only things i’d stick with HDD for at this point is heavy storage like NVRs and backups.

Most modern laptops don’t even have a place to put a HDD and I can’t even complain about it you can put way more storage in a m.2 than you can in a 2.5" 9.5mm hdd.

HDDs will still be profitable for at least several years but it’s pretty clear that SSDs are where the market is going.