I expilicitly said there is 1 (one) miniUSB cable available at my local MC co7nterpart, and it's not even a generic one.
Dock connector is rarer than miniUSB (I don't think you would argue that?) and the reason it is still there is probably because this is an old stock. As soon as the sales drop low enough it would be in the landfill, just like USB floppies and miniUSB cables in the stores near me.
miniUSB wasn't the best example but right now (and it was my point in the first place) it goes through the same process it did with all the serial and custom data ports 15 years ago.
You nd me wouldn't have trouble procuring miniUSB for a couple decades (cable box!) but overall their availability would decline and in 10 years an Average Joe would need to search if he would need to plug in an old WD Passport from 2005.
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> No, that sounds like just what I'd expect from magnetic storage.
No, that is not what I expect from an hdd. I've seen mulitple failures in my life, that was quite atypical. Most drives from that era or dead mechanically or fine, but not that
I guess Average Joes just can't figure out the complex ordering or Amazon or eBay. Because by your own examples of actually common, as in even remotely as common as MiniUSB, they're on there. You need a 25-pin serial cable? How long? What color? You need a SCSI terminator? You think those were even as remotely as common as MiniUSB? How many are on eBay right now? There's at least five pages of listings and I imagine there were many many times more MiniUSB cables out there.
And even then, that's fine. It's still not going to limit me from playing back my optical disks. They made optical drives with IDE, SATA, MiniUSB, micro USB, USB-B, eSATA, SCSI, etc. What are the odds all of these, along with all potential adapters, disappear?
Sigh.
> I've seen mulitple failures in my life, that was quite atypical.
I've seen that exact same kind of failure close to a dozen times in my life, mostly from a select few models iirc. Then again though my sample size of magnetic drives is probably >300 or so, a bit atypical id imagine. It's not an extremely rare thing to happen especially to low power 2.5" portable drives powered by USB.
I expilicitly said there is 1 (one) miniUSB cable available at my local MC co7nterpart, and it's not even a generic one.
Dock connector is rarer than miniUSB (I don't think you would argue that?) and the reason it is still there is probably because this is an old stock. As soon as the sales drop low enough it would be in the landfill, just like USB floppies and miniUSB cables in the stores near me.
miniUSB wasn't the best example but right now (and it was my point in the first place) it goes through the same process it did with all the serial and custom data ports 15 years ago.
You nd me wouldn't have trouble procuring miniUSB for a couple decades (cable box!) but overall their availability would decline and in 10 years an Average Joe would need to search if he would need to plug in an old WD Passport from 2005.
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> No, that sounds like just what I'd expect from magnetic storage.
No, that is not what I expect from an hdd. I've seen mulitple failures in my life, that was quite atypical. Most drives from that era or dead mechanically or fine, but not that