Re: Alternative to Optical Storage????

On 28/09/2024 12:04, Nux Vomica wrote:

On Sat, 28 Sep 2024 07:33:41 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
 

  Consumer SSDs are especially not
long term.
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Why not?
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 Because consumer SSDs require wear leveling and trimming which are
both cheap technical gimmicks intended to foist an inferior technology
onto an unsuspecting public.
 

Christ what an ignorant bigot..
I say chaps lets get rid of TCP/IP and Parity RAM because parity checks are cheap technical gimmicks intended to foist an inferior technology onto an unsuspecting public.
Or how about fuel injection. Nothing wrong with a carburettor, as long as you don't fly upside down?
How many 'fixes' have been applied to hard drives?
Checksums. Bad block management, Defragmentaion.
All signs of cheap technical gimmicks intended to foist an inferior technology onto an unsuspecting public.

 

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Provided they are kept powered on
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 Then just keep all your precious data in a RAM disk and never
power down your machine.
 

That is exactly what an SSD is. Cheap slow and more or less non volatile RAM
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