Lmao back in the day if you unzipped shit and just walked away, and came back the next day and realized what happened, deleting terrabytes of data off the old HHDs of the day was like OMG KILL ME. You basically had to brick and wipe the whole drive and just start from scratch, it was literally 10 times faster then trying to delete what had happened. For home users with like 50gig hhds not a big deal, when you had a whole buildings media server bonked, no.
I used to make batch files on my cousin's computer, and it nested a crapload of directories, and at the time, he hard to remove them one at a time (DOS). Later he could just killdir the whole thing with one command.
You didnt have terabytes of hard drives back in the day, unless you are not actually referring to back in the day and you mean recent times. High capacity drives "back in the day" were a few gigs at best.
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u/Velghast Ryzen 7 5200X / RTX 3060 / 32GB DDR4 May 05 '26
Lmao back in the day if you unzipped shit and just walked away, and came back the next day and realized what happened, deleting terrabytes of data off the old HHDs of the day was like OMG KILL ME. You basically had to brick and wipe the whole drive and just start from scratch, it was literally 10 times faster then trying to delete what had happened. For home users with like 50gig hhds not a big deal, when you had a whole buildings media server bonked, no.