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Yes, they finally made it to ZipDrives! Now they'll be future proof for a long time. ;) After building for just IoT stuff I really like things that work withou
by elcritch 1y ago
Yes, they finally made it to ZipDrives! Now they'll be future proof for a long time. ;)
After building for just IoT stuff I really like things that work without changing for years. I can't imagine how change adverse nuclear weapons engineers and staff would be.
It's funny too that spy thriller movies always envision military systems as super futuristic and having cutting edge technology.
- snickerbockers 1y agoill take zip or even floppy over most cutting-edge technology. You don't want your nuclear deterrent to have a dependency on AWS, they're bad enough at keeping things running when the country isn't getting nuked. I don't remember how reliable floppy disks were but at least data integrity is a well-understood science so there should be no problem detecting corruption. The new system uses SSDs which could be a bit concerning, as they're known to be more prone to corruption than HDDs; however the same thing i just said about data corruption applies to SSDs as well so it's probably not a big deal. On the other hand, the write amplification problem is very concerning and I can only hope that they're using full-disk encryption. I think it's important to realize that there hasn't been a lot of meaningful advancement as far as software is concerned for at least a decade. Hardware never stopped getting better but that just enabled people to write bloated, unreliable software.
- hulitu 1y ago> The new system uses SSDs which could be a bit concerning Hopefully they studied the data retention of those SSDs and use wear leveling.
- paradox460 1y agoDoE used to make somewhat heavy use of Jaz drives