Originally Posted by
Macca
I suspect the reality is that nobody would be able to tell what type of drive their music was coming from.
To be honest, as it generally plays from RAM anyway (or certainly a cached buffer of some type), even HDD held data would still be solid state at the point of stream. The only thing that remains is that mechanical vibration of course. But you're right, I bet in reality it'd be impossible to tell the difference.
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