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<blockquote data-quote="SeriousHoax" data-source="post: 889543" data-attributes="member: 78686">Saying HDD is legacy is extremely ridiculous. We&#039;re talking about HDD not floppy. Every manufactures still make and sell HDD, people still buy HDD, millions of people still use HDD and will continue to do so for more years to come. The price difference is pretty big also. More than double in my area for 1TB. HDD is not going away anywhere anytime soon. Most people I see around usually install the OS in a SSD but still use HDD for storing large amount of files. My own brother currently living in The Netherlands built a monster of a PC on January last year (eg; i9, 64gb ram, Nvidia 2080) spend a lot on it but still bought a HDD along with one internal and one external SSD. HDD is not legacy.It&#039;s also wrong to assume that Microsoft and other AVs only optimizes their AV for SSD and don&#039;t care about HDD. They definitely do because most people still use HDD. Many AV perform smoothly on a 5-10 years old HDD. Btw, Microsoft improved their search indexing performance on Windows 10 2004 update reducing CPU &amp; disk load and one of the reason to do so is to improve performance on HDD meaning they do care.WD&#039;s performance sufferers in some areas on HDD which is Microsoft&#039;s fault not the fault of HDD. High CPU and I/O usage is not something that can be improved overnight, if they could they would. Every AV works differently, Bitdefender consumes more ram on average than the most, WD usage more CPU and disk, ESET is light in every department, cloud AVs performance relies more or less depending on the internet connection, CPU but they are light on ram and disk and so on. The main thing is, performance varies based on many factors, it varies from user to user based on the system configuration and usage. Putting all the blame to HDD is wrong. We geek people tend to notice this variations, slow downs but average users don&#039;t know about this and don&#039;t care either. Most average people who doesn&#039;t browse forums like us are using Windows 10, using Windows Defender and happy with it. They would never complain about performance. WD is there already installed on the system and it does its job pretty well.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="SeriousHoax, post: 889543, member: 78686"] Saying HDD is legacy is extremely ridiculous. We're talking about HDD not floppy. Every manufactures still make and sell HDD, people still buy HDD, millions of people still use HDD and will continue to do so for more years to come. The price difference is pretty big also. More than double in my area for 1TB. HDD is not going away anywhere anytime soon. Most people I see around usually install the OS in a SSD but still use HDD for storing large amount of files. My own brother currently living in The Netherlands built a monster of a PC on January last year (eg; i9, 64gb ram, Nvidia 2080) spend a lot on it but still bought a HDD along with one internal and one external SSD. HDD is not legacy. It's also wrong to assume that Microsoft and other AVs only optimizes their AV for SSD and don't care about HDD. They definitely do because most people still use HDD. Many AV perform smoothly on a 5-10 years old HDD. Btw, Microsoft improved their search indexing performance on Windows 10 2004 update reducing CPU & disk load and one of the reason to do so is to improve performance on HDD meaning they do care. WD's performance sufferers in some areas on HDD which is Microsoft's fault not the fault of HDD. High CPU and I/O usage is not something that can be improved overnight, if they could they would. Every AV works differently, Bitdefender consumes more ram on average than the most, WD usage more CPU and disk, ESET is light in every department, cloud AVs performance relies more or less depending on the internet connection, CPU but they are light on ram and disk and so on. The main thing is, performance varies based on many factors, it varies from user to user based on the system configuration and usage. Putting all the blame to HDD is wrong. We geek people tend to notice this variations, slow downs but average users don't know about this and don't care either. Most average people who doesn't browse forums like us are using Windows 10, using Windows Defender and happy with it. They would never complain about performance. WD is there already installed on the system and it does its job pretty well. [/QUOTE]

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