Asking because of Air India 171. Pilots and their unions are objecting to it because of “privacy” reasons. What do you think about it?

  • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
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    6 hours ago

    vastly increases the storage requirements

    A couple terabytes of SSDs is a trivial expense on a commercial aircraft in 2025.

    I hear a similar argument daily – that the consumer no-RAID stuff is so cheap and thus storage should be cheap. The stuff you get on the shelf isn’t valuable here as it wouldn’t survive a crash. The consumer stuff would die quickly just from the brutal power-blips the system undergoes just as part of regular flight operations and power-source switching.

    • Zak@lemmy.world
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      It could cost a hundred times as much and we’re still only in the fifth digit of the airplane’s nine-digit price tag.