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We are digital librarians. Among us are represented the various reasons to keep data -- legal requirements, competitive requirements, uncertainty of permanence of cloud services, distaste for transmitting your data externally (e.g. government or corporate espionage), cultural and familial archivists, internet collapse preppers, and people who do it themselves so they're sure it's done right. Everyone has their reasons for curating the data they have decided to keep (either forever or For A Damn Long Time (tm) ). Along the way we have sought out like-minded individuals to exchange strategies, war stories, and cautionary tales of failures.

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"SSDs will catch HDDs by 20XX" - kind reminder to stop being overly optimistic. (alien.top)

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Take a look at those optimistic fools:

https://www.reddit.com/r/hardware/comments/2i6ftw/ssds_to_become_cheaper_than_hdds_by_2025/

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

A lot of stories like this. Like for example display tech and how LCD screens were received initially.

But there also are examples of failures, things which never became what they were predicted to.

Like blueray, which became a niche product at best, instead of replacing CD/DVD.

Or attempts at large removable magnetic disks, like ZIP drives.

It is impossible to predict how things will go, may be some new storage tech which is not vaporware finally happens and makes flash obsolete before it can replace HDDs...