Definitely a dad joke. I have younger cousins that don’t know what that is.
“Oh you mean like an SSD?”
“Yeah! It would go in the same 2.5 or 3.5 slot.”
“We stopped using those years ago, gramps.”
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“We stopped using those years ago, gramps.”
And here I am wasting my money on 24 TB obsolete HDDs when I could have just bought SSDs.
All the kids are using "the cloud" these days. Which is just a fancy proprietary server somewhere with spinning drives.
The youngest seem to be on board with a full cloud OS.
To me "the cloud" just mean you dont own your own product, not to mention the privacy issues. Spinning local HDD for me any day.
The cloud = Monthly Subscription
SSDs are getting more economical, particularly in the quantities cloud providers buy them in. Wear leveling is getting much better, they are more power efficient, and they have no moving parts to break. It won't surprise me if a lot of cloud storage is on SSDs, and we might not have spinning rust at all in a few years.
We've got servers rolling off the lines at work using 24 22TB drives, that extend 22, 22TB drives if I remember correctly. You know incase you need a petabyte. Side by side on the rack. Those all are HDD's with sata connectors.
Hey I still use them they are great for a media server.
when I could have just bought SSDs.
...for 5x the money
"So you know kids, all that fancy designer cloud stuff for your memes is still stored on lots, and lots, and lots of those spinny things you think we don't use any more! UNTIL WE MEET AGAIN!"
Or even 5.25 slot.
But that was ~30yrs ago when we had one in a 386.
Hey, I remember those! I remember the buzzing sound they made if the mount wasn't secure due to disk vibration.
Yeah probably 35+ years, 30 years ago would have been pretty much only 3.5" HDDs and I was on a 486DX2 for a few years. Fuck I'm old.
This is the stuff I think about when I'm solo.