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I hope the HDD market can survive. I really really appreciate being able to buy a 20TB Exos for $400. SSDs are so absurdly great, but I really like being able t

I hope the HDD market can survive. I really really appreciate being able to buy a 20TB Exos for $400. SSDs are so absurdly great, but I really like being able to have a nice data-archive. When Covid hit and the whole PC parts market dried up, and the Chia chain thing was happening, there were days where I was thinking I'll never be able to have affordable bulk storage again.

GalenErso 4y ago
SDDs can be destroyed by EMP events, whereas HDDs are safe. So I could see HDDs become prized by preppers and governments for critical purposes.
- skissane 4y ago
  > SDDs can be destroyed by EMP events, whereas HDDs are safe. Really? Maybe the data on the disk platters will be fine, but an EMP which wipes SSDs could just as easily fry the HDD electronics and firmware flash memory. Your data may well be intact, but you are never seeing it again without some highly specialised data recovery equipment - and will that equipment survive the EMP apocalypse?
- wtallis 4y ago
  That is not at all believable: both the worry about EMPs and the claim that HDDs would be meaningfully more resilient than SSDs.