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Japan is living in the future that the 1990s dreamed of. (startrek.website)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Both are spinning magnetic disks. I guess they meant the reliability aspect of the storage medium.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I honestly had several catastrophic failures of floppy disks that made me stop trusting them. imo floppy disks are the least reliable way to store data by far

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I don't know how reliable SSD is compared to magnetic but I guess they do fail too. Good thing about SSD is that it doesn't have moving parts so at least one fewer points of failure.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Depends on how much writing you are doing. I think that if you're doing tons of writes all the time, HDD might edge out SSD, but it all depends on a lot.

Floppies were an entirely different beast. Instead of a disk failing every few years, a floppy disk that hadn't been used in a few months, in my experience, was about 50/50 if it was bad or corrupted in some way.