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mrg1957 t1_ixuzmnq wrote

Reply to comment by ionhrn in ELI5: what exactly is data? What is information? Do they represent anything physical/take up space? by Azooz321

Nobody physically consumes data. Machines manipulate and read it. As far as hard drives well most is SSD today not a spinning HDD.

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ionhrn t1_ixw6vnt wrote

No, most is still spinning disks. The cost to storage space is still in favor of hard disk drives. SSD is a more stable storage medium, and a lot of data centers are upgrading to that, But spinning disks still takes the cake

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