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> I'm increasingly disillusioned with this world of hardware costing hundreds of dollars being considered geriatric at 3 years old. Requiring constant replaceme
by 908B64B197 5y ago
> I'm increasingly disillusioned with this world of hardware costing hundreds of dollars being considered geriatric at 3 years old. Requiring constant replacements mean that you don't really own anything, you're renting your whole life.
HDDs have always been considered a wearable part. SSDs are better but their lifespan also has a limit.
It's actually a selling point for things like OneDrive, operating your own file share has costs too, might as well shift these capex to opex.
> And since new hardware only supports new software, it keeps you stuck on the software treadmill too.
Part of the reasons is supporting older hardware requires back-porting changes. Or having N different versions of the same product in flight at all times.
There's a good reason some businesses are moving toward SaaS.
- prepend 5y agoI have lots of plate hard drives that are 10+ years old. And I have a few that are in boxes that are 20 years old that I still end up using every once in a while. Yes they are mechanical and will eventually fail but three years for an HDD is not a good trend.
- genewitch 5y agoDo you remember when consumer drives had three year warranties? The good ol' days. I haven't lost a spindle since I started using UPS to prevent voltage sags. Power outages make drive heads retract very fast, but a series of brown outs or 70VAC being put down the line used to cause me so much grief.
- prepend 5y agoI remember when even the el cheapos in Frys had 5 year warranties. Hitachi umtrastars still have 5 year warranties but are harder to get for non-commercial uses.