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AwesomeDragon97 t1_jczagvb wrote

Reply to comment by perrinoia in Do you think BluRay DVDs are the final form of physical media? Or will a new physical media format come to be, and what would that look like? by Daveyb003

The cloud is not a magical place in the sky, it is just someone else’s computer. This means that physical media will never be obsolete because the data always needs to be stored somewhere.

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perrinoia t1_jczdqun wrote

Semantics. Obviously OP meant removable media. There's no need to physically carry media around with us like we used to.

Look at the popularity of chrome books, for instance.

The last time I built a computer, I bought the biggest hard drive I could to fit all of my games and other data. However, my current cellphone is more powerful than the last gaming rig I built. SSDs are so much faster than HDDs, and the internet is so much faster, I don't need to store everything I own locally. I can use my internal storage as a buffer to store whatever I'm actively working on or playing with, while archiving the rest on the cloud and downloading as needed.

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