Keep in mind that this test is inherently unrealistic

I wouldn’t say it’s necessarily unrealistic.

They found burn-in with 700 hours of 16:9.

But how long should the monitor go before burning in?

3 years? In 1.5 years, 700 hours of 16:9 is only about 1.2 hours a day of 16:9 content which is not unrealistic in the slightest. Even double that is not unrealistic and burn-in in less than 1 year…

That’s certainly problematic.

This is exactly what happened to my monitor. Visible burn-in in 10 months, and 1.5 years on now it’s even worse.

But large SSDs still seem to be really high priced.

Like I have 300TB on HDDs. The largest reasonably priced SSD seems to be the Samsung 870 QVO at like $300.

But I really don’t want to have to connect and manage 38 disks…

And at $300 per, that’s over $11,000

Meanwhile I could get 17 18TB HDDs for $3000.

Over $8000 cheaper which is a lot IMO, and 17 disks isn’t so hard to manage compared to 38 IMO.

Collecting things as a hobby has been a thing since forever.

Collecting stamps, collecting coins etc.

How exactly do you “enjoy” a stamp or coin or a whatever collection?