Hard drives suck.
Oh, sure, they're several times faster and have thousands of times as much capacity as used to be normal, back in the days when most computers didn't have a hard drive at all. And, sure, they're cheap - 120Gb or more, as I write this, for the price of an unremarkable CPU. And modern drives are pretty reliable, and highly compatible with each other, and you haven't had to do low level formats or run head parking programs for years now.
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