If you’re storing petabytes of data sure, but when a tape drive costs $8k+ (Only price I could find that wasn’t “Call for quote”), and only storing less than 500TB, it’s cheaper to buy hard drives.
I’m not sure how important 2 types of media is these days, I personally have all my larger data on harddrives, but with multiple off-site copies and raid redundancy. Some people count “cloud” as another type of storage, but that’s just “somebody else’s harddrive”
As a person hosting my own data storage, tape is completely out of reach. The equipment to read archival tapes would cost more than my entire system. It’s also got extremely high latency compared to spinning disks, which I can still use as live storage.
Unless you’re a huge company, spinning disks will be the way to go for bulk storage for quite a while.
If anyone’s ever followed console emulator development, they know those undocumented commands are everywhere. There’s still people finding new ones for the N64 hardware
Edit: I should say undocumented behavior, not necessarily new commands
Let me explain how it works when you self host like me:
For most people yes, you can just browse “All” unless you’re on a smaller instance, since someone on your Instance has probably already subscribed to the community you’re looking for.
I think it would show up in All still, but only posts that were synced while it was subscribed I think?. I haven’t really checked if posts would disappear again. On the “Top Day” view I use, the “All” posts are identical to “Subscribed”
If you’re on an instance with only 1 user, they’re the same thing. But yes, Lemmy’s a lot better if you just subscribe to what you want.
Setting up my own instance ended up being pretty good for me since it meant I had to manually subscribe to every community I want. The quality of “All” posts depends heavily on the instance you’re on.
Based on current trends, I’d say we might get SSDs and HDDs at the same cost per GB around 2030. That’s based on prices being 12-13x higher in 2015, and around 5x higher now. SSD cost efficiencies are slowing down, but there will also be a big change in demand once the prices get close, because SSDs have other advantages people will switch as soon as it’s economical.
I’ve currently got a 200TB storage array using enterprise HDDs (shout out to Backblaze’s HDD failure rate publications), and I definitely would not have been able to afford 200TB of enterprise SSDs.