A regional security firm operates a metropolitan CCTV system with hundreds of cameras recording continuously 24/7. The footage is written to storage servers and kept for 30 days before being overwritten. The firm elects to use high-capacity magnetic hard disk drives (HDDs) rather than solid-state drives (SSDs) for their continuous-recording storage servers.
Explain two distinct reasons why magnetic hard disk drives are preferred over solid-state drives in this specific scenario.
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