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He also could be confusing Zip disks with the Jazz disks, which were only slightly better than writing your data to /dev/null.
by curun1r 10y ago
He also could be confusing Zip disks with the Jazz disks, which were only slightly better than writing your data to /dev/null.
- dredmorbius 10y agoWriting to /dev/null had the advantage of being far faster, and far more predictable.
- eridius 10y agoYou could say that about literally any storage mechanism. Writing to /dev/null will always be faster and more predictable, no matter what the alternative is.
- aidenn0 10y agobut Jazz disks didn't have any better data retention than writing to /dev/null, whereas most alternatives do.
- dredmorbius 10y agoBingo. Cheaper, too.