Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[Scribe]

I will not engage, and I won't discuss politics here or elsewhere.
But the latest string of posts from that person has me angry enough to spit nails.
I need to log off the Internet for a while.

But I havent been posting much...

 

[Reynard]

I have read some pretty vile posts on social media, but that takes the cake.

Gross.

 

[Scribe]

I have read some pretty vile posts on social media, but that takes the cake.

Gross.

Hmm, hopefully I already have them blocked.

 

[Ryujin]

I have read some pretty vile posts on social media, but that takes the cake.

Gross.

Disgusting and hypocritical, innit?

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Oh, I wouldn't say they're the low end of stupid arguments, just that they're in like the lowest quartile or something. There are some that are stupider.

Here’s an example:

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[Reynard]

The TB vs RTwP war is real. I had no idea. ::backs slowly out of sub::

 

[Scribe]

The TB vs RTwP war is real. I had no idea. ::backs slowly out of sub::

Very much so.

 

[RealAlHazred]

I vaguely recall this cross over tech

This storage tech was supposed to be the future—here is why it failed

Jack of both drives, master of none.

www.howtogeek.com

I chuckled when I saw the article mention that HDDs were on their way out.

The problem with SSDs is that they have limited read-write lifetimes. Each SSD has a set number of read-writes (i.e., data being written, and data being read) after which the files on the drive are totally inaccessible.

With HDDs, even if you have a catastrophic failure, all the magic smoke pouring out of the drive casing like it was on fire, you can probably still recover the data. Even if the drive catches on fire, you can probably recover most of the data. We used to drill holes in the HDD platter, and even so, you could still recover most of the data, assuming the specific bit you wanted wasn't in the actual circle that was drilled out. Nowadays, we physically shred drives with customer data to ensure the information is gone.

HDDs are probably here to stay, but even if they aren't SSDs are probably not going to kill them. The paranoia of corporations over potentially losing their Intellectual Property just because of regular usage guarantees HDDs have their place.

 

[RealAlHazred]

The TB vs RTwP war is real. I had no idea. ::backs slowly out of sub::

Well, sure! Only Real Loonies would use <your favorite of those two> -- Real Gamers use <the other one>!

 

[Ryujin]

I chuckled when I saw the article mention that HDDs were on their way out.

The problem with SSDs is that they have limited read-write lifetimes. Each SSD has a set number of read-writes (i.e., data being written, and data being read) after which the files on the drive are totally inaccessible.

With HDDs, even if you have a catastrophic failure, all the magic smoke pouring out of the drive casing like it was on fire, you can probably still recover the data. Even if the drive catches on fire, you can probably recover most of the data. We used to drill holes in the HDD platter, and even so, you could still recover most of the data, assuming the specific bit you wanted wasn't in the actual circle that was drilled out. Nowadays, we physically shred drives with customer data to ensure the information is gone.

HDDs are probably here to stay, but even if they aren't SSDs are probably not going to kill them. The paranoia of corporations over potentially losing their Intellectual Property just because of regular usage guarantees HDDs have their place.

Back in the day I would open up the drives that I was disposing of and give them a few good blasts from a CRT degaussing coil. These days they just get chucked into a massive industrial shredder, that's owned by a third party company specializing in data destruction.