Monero is primarily CPU minable because of RandomX but you can also use GPUs to mine but it won't be as effective.
Hard drives primarily relate to node verification, monero has adaptive block size, some cryptos like Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, and Litecoin have fixed Block Sizes.
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Actual-block-size-in-megabytes_fig4_346475424
Ah okay. Got it, so if the original post was being honest, it would be pitting against top of line cpu miners...but instead confusingly used hardrives which are used for bitcoin & monero nodes which has nothing to do with proof of work mining
No, I was just talking about how people always talk about Monero's "Big Fat Problem" of monero needing more hard drive space to run its blockchain when data storage has only become cheaper, and more available over time.
Whereas mining for Bitcoin is still extremely expensive but they seem to ignore that.
Being Data intensive in order to keep fees low is the better trade off in my opinion since Data storage technology will only become more efficient over time.
My assumption is operating off of both mining, and running a node.
