Does the direction of storage make us bad data citizens?

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Published on Wed, 23 Apr 2014 14:20:10 GMT Indexed on 2014/05/26 21:49 UTC
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  My career started at a company where we hardly had email, the network was a 10base2 affair with cables running all around the office. You used floppy disks and the thought of a GB of data was absurd. You had to look after every byte and only keep what you really needed. Whilst the cost of the spinning disks gradually falls the cost and size of flash storage continues to plummet. The new Crucial SSD is £380 for 1TB I can now keep 128GB of data on a SD card the size of my finger. It only costs...(read more)

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