#hard drives

[willenator]

Thanks a lot, AI: Hard drives are already sold out for the entire year, says Western Digital

AI companies have bought out Western Digital's storage capacity for 2026. It's only February.

Sigh. Gues this means we will see prices go up on hard drives now.

[krissiefox]

My wife's husband, Ahriman, recently informed me that he tried downloading the new Oblivion Remaster on our Xbox One. He found it was not only 122 freakin' GB but it would also only install internally because it needed a "high speed drive" to run.

Again, I ask, AAA studios, what the fuck is your problem? We don't need "texture streaming" we just want fun games that fucking fit on your hard drive or a disc or whatever. I don't need to see every single individually rendered pore on an NPCs face to have fun with a game.

I've been playing Minecraft for over 10 years and enjoying every single blocky pixelated moment.

I've been playing Sims Bustin' Out on Gamecube, and having a blast with a game that's doesn't even take up a full GB of space!

I've been taking beauty screenshots on maps from Unreal Tournament 2004, a 21 year old game engine that still looks and sounds lovely. This game did take a few GB of space, but it's still a noticeable problem when a PC game goes from being 9 GB to 100+. Sheesh.

Please stop making games that demand my entire fucking hard drive for the sake of graphics. You can make games pretty without making them ridiculously bloated.

[gwydionmisha]

Music industry’s 1990s hard drives, like all HDDs, are dying

The music industry traded tape for hard drives and got a hard-earned lesson.

[s3znl-gr3znl]

im very torn about the trope of robots "regaining their wiped memories" because what a joy it would be to learn everything about the people you love all over again, but also it is theoretically possible.

when data is deleted on something like a hard drive, the information doesn't actually leave the device. The computer essentially "shreds" it down into binary and puts it a forgotten corner. even partially destroyed hard drives can have data recovered from them. kind of like how casette tapes and dvds work when you overwrite data/audio. It's still there, in a way, albeit fractured and sometimes incomplete.

So on the one hand, yeah it makes sense that that could happen but at this point why do it? why not write a story about a robot with amnesia who for some reason doesnt have access to the necessary equipment to restore their memory because of the damage/situation/cost/etc and must come to relearn who their friends are, their history as well as their own, and their flaws?

[agendratum]

moved more than 200gb(?????) of videos kept for giffing purposed (and general savekeeping) to a hard drive and also deleted a game i was barely playing that was taking up 140gb and suddenly more than half of my drive is empty

what a wonderful wonderful world

[afrotumble]

[krjpalmer]

MacUser November 1991

The thirty-two hard drives examined in this issue were all one hundred megabyte models. Two laser printers and a scanner from Apple also squeezed onto the cover, and inside a new section devoted to the “Personal Macintosh” included a piece from Douglas Adams, returning to MacUser again, that took on trying to get his SCSI chain sorted out.

[junicai]

i’m confused, what’s p0st +??

p0st + is a new update that tumblr is adding to the platform, that's essentially going to allow users to monetise their blogs.

it'll make the blogs unavailable to be seen by those who don't "subscribe" to it, therefore implementing a classist barrier between those who want to consume media but cannot afford it, and those who can.

the reason why so many blogs are up in arms about the update, is because it's illegal to monetise off of fandom-related works, be it fanfiction, fanart, or anything else centred around a fandom.

p0st + is not including warnings for fandom content creators to tell them that it is illegal to monetise their works, but is also actively encouraging them to sign up to the platform with misleading information and dancing around questions.

for most of us, it's irritating because tumblr is playing us for fools, but there's a very real risk of a wattpad baby coming onto tumblr with the idea that they can now make money off of their harry potter fanfiction, leading to life-altering lawsuits.

when, eventually, this ^ comes to term (and it will) tumblr will simply use it as an excuse to shadowban, and eventually purge most fandom content from the platform - because it will not benefit them in a financial, and as long as we are here, we will ward off the normies and anyone else who might be more likely to invest in a p0st + blog.

fandom purges from websites happen every couple of years - and the fear with this new update, is that it's the start of one on tumblr.