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And now even hard drives and their associated bays are disappearing (good riddance) as flash storage becomes increasingly prevalent in the form of SSD M.2 slots

by qubex 8y ago

And now even hard drives and their associated bays are disappearing (good riddance) as flash storage becomes increasingly prevalent in the form of SSD M.2 slots. Most functionality that was on expansion cards is now either redundant (sound cards, disk controllers) or integrated somehow onto the motherboard/chipset/processor (networking, integrated graphics, video in/out capabilities built into USB and HDMI ports)...

Gene_Parmesan 8y ago
Very true. And to be clear, I much prefer the advent of solid-state based storage; I will be truly happy to never again have a HDD show up DOA. Or to hear an ominous crunch while working on something, and then realize the drive's just decided now is a good time to go bye-bye. I completely welcome the loss of moving parts. But like I said, there was just something to the experience of working with diskettes. It felt more analog somehow. I wonder if there was any such nostalgia for the days of tape/cassette storage.
- PavlovsCat 8y ago
  > Or to hear an ominous crunch while working on something, and then realize the drive's just decided now is a good time to go bye-bye. I completely welcome the loss of moving parts. "Why I'm usually unnerved when modern SSDs die on us" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18653728 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18653728 You don't need moving parts for the drive to go bye-bye without warning.