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[–] 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Drag thinks solid state drives are drives and they're hard.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    But, my dearest Drag, you miss the point! There will be generations of humans that have no experience of spinning rust, of whirring platters, or of the dreaded tick- tick- tick- of a crashed head and lost data. What will they do?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    How are hard drives "spinning rust"? Are solid state drives "stationary sand"?

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  • Magnetic recording materials have historically been metal oxides, I have no clue if that remains true for modern hard drive platters. I guess you could argue that SSDs are stationary sand, but you could make the same argumant for the majority of semiconductors so I don’t think it sufficiently specifies SSDs.

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