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The age of hard drives is over as Samsung cranks out consumer QLC SSDs

cambsukguy

Luxury!

When we got a fancy new 286-based PC with removable drive technology so we could all use it as ourselves, the drives had a ridiculously large 5MB on each one!

Given that we used floppy net, often with the Royal Mail as the (literal) transport layer, the speed increase was something else.

And 'git' was done by saying 'Now press delete four times and type this instead...'

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