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    [–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (10 children)

    At least sata is well on its way towards dying, so the problem will solve itself in some more years.
    My machines all have nvme exclusively now, only some servers are left using sata. And I would say the type of user at risk of fucking up a dd command (which 95% of the time should be a cp command) doesn't deal with servers. Those are also not machines you plug thumb drives into commonly.

    In 5-10 years we will think of sda as the usb drive, and it'll be a fun-fact that sda used to be the boot drive.

    [–] WhyJiffie 3 points 5 days ago (7 children)

    does that mean that you dont use hard drives at all? how many storage have you got?

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (6 children)

    I have a nas with 32TB. My main pc has 2TB and my laptop 512GB. I expected to need to upgrade especially the laptop at some point, but haven't gotten anywhere near using up that local storage without even trying.
    I don't have anything huge I couldn't put on the nas.

    At this point I could easily go 4TB on the laptop and 8TB the desktop if I needed to.
    Spinning rust is comparable in speed to networking anyway, so as long as noone invents a 20TB 2.5'' hdd that fits my laptop for otg storage, there would be no reason something would benefit from an hdd in my systems over in my nas.

    Edit:
    Anything affordable in ssd storage has similar prices in M.2-nvme and 2.5''-sata format. So unless you have old hardware, I see the remaining use for sata as hdd-only.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

    doesn't the nas use spinning rust?

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago
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