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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish7•8 hours agoI’d love to see something like this in a tower format, and with regular 5.25" bays with faceplates rather than these faux floppy drives. I’d pay a somewhat unreasonable amount for that.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish3•8 hours agoI hope the fake floppy drives are just covers for external 3.5" bays. Maybe something hotswapable even
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•6 hours agoSomething like a 5 ¼" archival SSD would be really cool. Just a solid storage chonk, that you can forget in a drawer. Pipedream, I know.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•4 hours agoSSDs are not suitable for long term storage. Modern consumer grade SSDs are only rated for 1 year of data retention without power. Only SLC flash is suitable for long term storage, but those are very expensive and low capacity.
I’d love to see something like this in a tower format, and with regular 5.25" bays with faceplates rather than these faux floppy drives.
I’d pay a somewhat unreasonable amount for that.
I hope the fake floppy drives are just covers for external 3.5" bays. Maybe something hotswapable even
Something like a 5 ¼" archival SSD would be really cool. Just a solid storage chonk, that you can forget in a drawer.
Pipedream, I know.
SSDs are not suitable for long term storage. Modern consumer grade SSDs are only rated for 1 year of data retention without power. Only SLC flash is suitable for long term storage, but those are very expensive and low capacity.