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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 om
by 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.