On Mon, Dec 03, 2018 at 04:37:41AM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > They are different in shape, price, ruggedness and safety against > > inadverted overwriting. > > Probably also in terms of ecological footprint, BTW.
Most probably, yes. But I wouldn't know where to begin to compare the ecological footprint of a (small) semiconductor chip (or two?) plus bonding, packaging and connector with that of one big polycarbonate disk (plus some magic dyes) plus the amortized cost for a drive. My hunch is that those chips are fairly expensive, ecologically, but where's the tipping point? Cheers -- tomás
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