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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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[–] Captain_Starkiller@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Question to fellow hoarders: Will you really trust SSDs to hold your data vs mechanical drives?

[–] jianh1989@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

This is tough to predict. Another round of pandemic caused by that stupid country (whether deliberate or accidental) and you can bin this chart.

[–] 654354365476435@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Double the size only twice from 8 to 32 and keep current prices like (32 would cost as much as 8 now) and I will replace every single drive I have.

Its not that far fetch, ssd double in size in regular intervals but jump to 16tb is overdue for sure

[–] McFistPunch@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't know why this is done with a linear fit cuz these kind of curves will probably level out at some point with diminishing return

[–] CokeZoro@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Yes, which is why its an exponential. This is a logarithmic graph.