I took delivery of 28 TB of spinning hardness today. Nothing gets my watery sap rising more than quality storage these days.
2nd millennium mechanical storage? How about magnetic tape and paper punch cards?
Do you also use vacuum tubes (Eccles-Jordan bistable multivibrator circuitry) and revolving drum memory?
SSDs have been around for over 40 years, mainstream for 20, consumer/retail for well over a decade.
I concede that mechanical HDDs have some archival value but they're so slow and so fragile.
I guess they're cheap though. You get what you pay for.
SSD's are around for 40 years now. They were sized a few hundred kilobytes back then, survived a few thousand of writes (at best) and were pretty slow, agree?
OK, it's no more 198x now, so SSDs got faster, bigger and more reliable.
Wait... Is that all?
Let's see:
If a SSD with all your precious data on it dies. Can you recover it?
I guess not. And if so, the operation would be quite complicated.
Harddrives offer at least two options. Mounting the discs and reading the raw data, or changing the drives electronics (taken from a spare drive from the same production batch).
Hey, HDD's are there for a reason, and it's not only the low price.
Speaking of that, how much would you pay for 14TB on a single SSD?
(Might be a trick question, you'll find out).
I'll end the irony here. Just think for yourself, i'm sure you are capable of finding the right answers, just by doubting your own genius statement
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no offense
laugh a little...
EDIT:
Damn! I just found out i'm actually RIDING A BICICLE!!! FFS!!!
I should immediately replace it with a jetpack, or i'm bound to using a 100s of years old mechanical transportation vehicle (so almost from stone age).
SCNR - please don't shoot me
P.S. All this talk of storage has me thinking that we all owe a little thanks to Joe Breher for his work in making these storage technologies possible. Many people here see him as an argumentative pro-BSV "troll". He's a lot more than that.
Word. Seconded.
Humans are just prone to error. Like judging a whole person on a single opinion...
Tape is great for archival but the issue I think is a working drive to read it, I have millennium Disc blurays for family memories and what not. They're rated at 1000 years and can take a hell of a beating, plus they're cheap.
Maybe, if they're stored in perfect conditions. (no light, right temperature, humididty, horizontal orientation etc.).
Also need to store a drive that can read them and hope that you have a compatible interface in 1000 years to connect it to