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[-] Chobbes@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

That’s super early to have adopted SSDs solely, no?

[-] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Yeah it is, and Windows didn’t get TRIM support for SSDs until Windows 7 in 2009.

The MacBook Air didn’t even get SSDs until 2008, and I believe it was the first mass-produced consumer computer with an SSD. Linux also got support around that time.

I’m skeptical unless OP’s dad worked somewhere that had enterprise drives to discard… and allowed drives to disappear.

[-] Willy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago

The oldest receipt I can locate was from 2009. I think that was my second. The first ssd being from before my son was born. He’s about to graduate high school. I remember when trim came out it was a big deal and I remember vaguely having issues with getting it to work on that first drive.

All that said, you’re probably right that 2002 was way too early of a guesstimate. Say 2006 or even 2010. What have people been doing all these years. Just waiting to boot up? There is a whole generation that should never have had to deal with hdd’s for anything but data hoarding.

[-] GarytheSnail@programming.dev 1 points 11 months ago

That sounds more reasonable lol.

[-] Chobbes@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Yeah ~2008 is kind of the timeframe I have for people getting SSDs in consumer devices. I mean… maybe you could count compact flash?

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