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From: The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Alternative to Optical Storage????
Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2024 13:04:56 +0100
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On 28/09/2024 12:04, Nux Vomica wrote:
> On Sat, 28 Sep 2024 07:33:41 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
> 
>>>   Consumer SSDs are especially not
>>> long term.
>>>
>> Why not?
>>
> 
> Because consumer SSDs require wear leveling and trimming which are
> both cheap technical gimmicks intended to foist an inferior technology
> onto an unsuspecting public.
> 
Christ what an ignorant bigot..

I say chaps lets get rid of TCP/IP and Parity RAM because parity checks 
are cheap technical gimmicks intended to foist an inferior technology 
onto an unsuspecting public.

Or how about fuel injection. Nothing wrong with a carburettor, as long 
as you don't fly upside down?

How many 'fixes' have been applied to hard drives?

Checksums. Bad block management, Defragmentaion.

All signs of cheap technical gimmicks intended to foist an inferior 
technology onto an unsuspecting public.

> 
>>
>> Provided they are kept powered on
>>
> 
> Then just keep all your precious data in a RAM disk and never
> power down your machine.
> 
That is exactly what an SSD is. Cheap slow and more or less non volatile RAM



-- 
Future generations will wonder in bemused amazement that the early 
twenty-first century’s developed world went into hysterical panic over a 
globally average temperature increase of a few tenths of a degree, and, 
on the basis of gross exaggerations of highly uncertain computer 
projections combined into implausible chains of inference, proceeded to 
contemplate a rollback of the industrial age.

Richard Lindzen