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Blue_Morpho
Come on man, everything, and mean everything you said is wrong.
Budget tape backup?
No, you can't even begin to compare drives to tape. They're completely different use cases. A hard drive can contain a backup but it's not physically robust to be unplugged, rotated off site , and put into long term storage like tape. You might as well say a Honda Accord is a budget Semi tractor trailer.
Then you specifically called out personal downloads of anime as a bad use case. That's absolutely wrong in all cases.
It is absurd to imply that everyone else except for you is less knowledgeable and using a niche case except you.
It's not a website, it's spam services that stay legit enough to not be blocked by email hosts.
I've never known anyone who has wanted an emailed newsletter. They're always hidden in signups and online purchases. They hang around because people are too lazy to look for the 2 point font that says "unsubscribe".
Because everything he said was wrong?
Magic the Gathering cards are an asset. Beanie babies are an asset.
Gold and silver have a 5,000 years of history of currency. All other items like oil and cheese are commodities critical to life.
If everything falls apart you can transfer a ledger of who owns the cheese without needing to physically move the cheese. Bitcoin doesn't work without a working global internet of computers. It is more fragile than any traditional alternative.
The fundamental physics of a spinning disc mean that these aren't a good solution for rapid seeking of specific sectors to read and write and so forth.
It's no ssd but is no slower than any other 12TB drive. It's not shingled but HAMR. The sectors are closer together so it has even better seeking speed than a regular 12TB drive.
Not a great solution for all the anime you totally legally obtained on Yahoo.
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It's absolutely perfect for that. Even if it was shingled tech, that only slows write speeds. Unless you are editing your own video, write seek times are irrelevant. For media playback use only consistent read speed matters. Not even read seek matters except in extreme conditions like comparing tape seek to drive seek. You cannot measure 10 ms difference between clicking a video and it starting to play because of all the other delays caused by media streaming over a network.
But that's not even relevant because these have faster read seeking than older drives because sectors are closer together.
If it was a secret, the pilot would not be told. If it wasn't a secret, it would be documented.
Even assuming the story is true there is a huge leap between gold being shipped and it being Fort Knox Gold.
For example many countries stored their gold at the US federal reserve for safety. China would have sent their Gold to the US during WW2 because they were overrun by Japan. After Nixon normalized relations with China, they would have gotten their Gold back.
You can make that argument in 5000 years. As of today, it's still equivalent to MtG cards.
Supply Side Jesus: Track 6
Awesome looking? What's the blue tint on the upper right of screen?
Fermion condensate
I replied to someone who posited the collapse of the US economy such that alternatives to money would be necessary.