15 years (rough guess) ago we thought we would never need a 12MB drive
As for back-up I would prefer a HDD. The space/$ is sooo much better than SSD that I don't see how to ''defend'' buying a SSD unless you have a pool build of diamants and filled with liquid gold.
Don't you mean 25 years ago? 15 years ago I had a 4GB HDD in with a Pentium 166mhz 32mb ram PC, beat that.
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