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> and SD cards aren't really that reliable, nor can they be used as long-term offline storage. It would be very nice if there was storage that was more durable
by RetroTechie 3y ago
> and SD cards aren't really that reliable, nor can they be used as long-term offline storage.
It would be very nice if there was storage that was more durable & reliable than current tech. As opposed to just bigger & cheaper.
Eg. that glass-based storage Microsoft is working on. If that makes it to market, even a few dozen GB per media, write-once, would be very tempting.
I don't need ever-increasing # of TBs. I need [whatever I have stored] to not disappear randomly. Hell, in this aspect even floppies in early 80s out-did current day flash storage.
Yeah I know good backup procedures protect against data loss. But that doesn't make random-failing-storage-without-warning any less pita.
- shiroiushi 3y ago>Hell, in this aspect even floppies in early 80s out-did current day flash storage. As an interesting aside, you can roughly estimate's someone age from internet comments when they talk about the reliability of floppy disks (or lack thereof).