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Re:Show HN: The operating system I built as my high school p... by Gene_Parmesan on Sunday February 03, 2019 @11:29PM (#19074006)
Very true. And to be clear, I much prefer the advent of solid-state based storage; I will be truly happy to never again have a HDD show up DOA. Or to hear an ominous crunch while working on something, and then realize the drive's just decided now is a good time to go bye-bye. I completely welcome the loss of moving parts.

But like I said, there was just something to the experience of working with diskettes. It felt more analog somehow.

I wonder if there was any such nostalgia for the days of tape/cassette storage.

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Re:Show HN: The operating system I built as my high school p... by PavlovsCat on Monday February 04, 2019 @08:52AM (#19076327)
> Or to hear an ominous crunch while working on something, and then realize the drive's just decided now is a good time to go bye-bye. I completely welcome the loss of moving parts.

"Why I'm usually unnerved when modern SSDs die on us"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18653728

You don't need moving parts for the drive to go bye-bye without warning.

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