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Re:The Helium Factor and Hard Drive Failure Rates by jammi on Friday May 04, 2018 @04:14AM (#16992990)
Just like in combustion engines, it seems like the best things are held to the last generations of hardware. I expect both to lose market share down to nil during the 2020s. BEVs replacing internal combustion engines and solid state storage replacing HDDs even in cost per storage unit.
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Re:The Helium Factor and Hard Drive Failure Rates by ableal on Monday May 07, 2018 @10:49AM (#17013144)
"Perfection is attained on the point of collapse"

(I thought I had read that somewhere, but the closest I find now is C.N. Parkinson's formulation, which I did read years ago ...)

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