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Please don't use/allow links like this It's fundamentally still advertising Notwithstanding what manufacturers or retailers are suggested, and regardless of apparent intent, links like these stil...
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#1: Initial revision
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Karl Knechtel
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2024-06-17T06:15:11Z (5 months ago)
## Please don't use/allow links like this ### It's fundamentally still advertising Notwithstanding what manufacturers or retailers are suggested, and regardless of apparent intent, links like these still fundamentally serve the purpose of advertising a product or service. If this answer had come from a new user, I would have flagged it as spam. Ignoring such links sets a terrible precedent by discouraging vigilance against spammers. It's worth noting here especially that undisclosed affiliate links aren't always trivial to detect. ### It's really not necessary Considering the purpose in context, simply stating that SSD storage can be obtained relatively cheaply is more than enough. If we're going to be doing subjective comparisons, it would be more interesting in practical terms to talk about, say, the relative size of low-end storage devices vs. a typical Linux installation. Ideas like this are perfectly well expressed by giving rough ranges and speaking in general terms. If the community really feels that evidence is necessary, it would be better to use a secondary source, e.g. a link to an editorial on a hardware review site. ### Temporal concerns Storage is likely to continue getting cheaper. The numbers provided here will go out of date soon enough. Does it benefit anyone to keep them up to date? Are the numbers *necessary* to convey what they're intended to convey (which doesn't actually appear to be all that objective)? More interesting, anyway, is the cost *ratio* between SSDs and HDDs, byte for byte. ### Cultural and personal concerns "Cheap" is relative - considering both the local economy and personal preferences. Also, individual demands for storage space vary greatly. Putting numbers on the storage cost doesn't really change the fact that this is putting forward an opinion. It could be useful to put forward a *reality check*, but frame-challenging "do you need HDD storage at all?" isn't going to work well in a vacuum, especially not when the frame challenge isn't actually described as such.