“So you know kids, all that fancy designer cloud stuff for your memes is still stored on lots, and lots, and lots of those spinny things you think we don’t use any more! UNTIL WE MEET AGAIN!”
We’ve got servers rolling off the lines at work using 24 22TB drives, that extend 22, 22TB drives if I remember correctly. You know incase you need a petabyte. Side by side on the rack. Those all are HDD’s with sata connectors.
Definitely a dad joke. I have younger cousins that don’t know what that is.
“Oh you mean like an SSD?”
“Yeah! It would go in the same 2.5 or 3.5 slot.”
“We stopped using those years ago, gramps.”
“So you know kids, all that fancy designer cloud stuff for your memes is still stored on lots, and lots, and lots of those spinny things you think we don’t use any more! UNTIL WE MEET AGAIN!”
Or even 5.25 slot.
But that was ~30yrs ago when we had one in a 386.
Hey, I remember those! I remember the buzzing sound they made if the mount wasn’t secure due to disk vibration.
And here I am wasting my money on 24 TB obsolete HDDs when I could have just bought SSDs.
All the kids are using “the cloud” these days. Which is just a fancy proprietary server somewhere with spinning drives.
The youngest seem to be on board with a full cloud OS.
To me “the cloud” just mean you dont own your own product, not to mention the privacy issues. Spinning local HDD for me any day.
The cloud = Monthly Subscription
Relevant XKCD :
https://xkcd.com/908/
…for 5x the money
We’ve got servers rolling off the lines at work using 24 22TB drives, that extend 22, 22TB drives if I remember correctly. You know incase you need a petabyte. Side by side on the rack. Those all are HDD’s with sata connectors.