Sujet : Re: Alternative to Optical Storage????
De : tnp (at) *nospam* invalid.invalid (The Natural Philosopher)
Groupes : comp.os.linux.advocacyDate : 28. Sep 2024, 15:45:36
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On 28/09/2024 14:24, Nux Vomica wrote:
On Sat, 28 Sep 2024 13:04:56 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
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How many 'fixes' have been applied to hard drives?
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Checksums. Bad block management, Defragmentaion.
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All signs of cheap technical gimmicks intended to foist an inferior
technology onto an unsuspecting public.
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True. Consumer-grade technology is inferior in many ways.
But SSDs go way beyond reasonable bounds with their technical
gimmickry.
No they don't.
Wear levelling is a perfectly respectable way to maximise capacity usage. No different from eg defragmenting a disk drive minimise seeks
EXT 4 file systems on HD do lots off caching and checksums, designed to make hard drives more efficient and TRIM is only there because that caching doesn't play nice with SSD.
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Alternative to Optical Storage????
Re: Alternative to Optical Storage????