• HugeNerd@lemmy.ca
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    22 hours ago

    How are hard drives “spinning rust”? Are solid state drives “stationary sand”?

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      15 hours ago

      Magnetic recording materials have historically been metal oxides, I have no clue if that remains true for modern hard drive platters. I guess you could argue that SSDs are stationary sand, but you could make the same argumant for the majority of semiconductors so I don’t think it sufficiently specifies SSDs.