• Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    5 months ago

    Thanks, my point is simply just that data is still physical, no matter what.

    A document locked inside a box that I personally don’t have a key to doesn’t make the document inside of it non-existent, just inaccessible to me, personally.

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      5 months ago

      Thanks, my point is simply just that data is still physical, no matter what.

      Turn off the PC and see how well that no-matter-what applies…

      A document locked inside a box that I personally don’t have a key to doesn’t make the document inside of it non-existent, just inaccessible to me, personally.

      What’s the point of having inaccessible data?

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      5 months ago

      No, the data is not physical, it is either magnetic or electric.

      Since most people still store their media on hard drives most media is purely magnetic.

      In a solid state drive storage chip the data is stored electronicly.

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      5 months ago

      all this is understood, but the access is what’s paramount, not the state of the media