Internal hard drives are the standard storage medium for personal computers.
This case could be an indication that the storage medium is going bad.
So as a storage medium, it is very bad.
Glass is generally safer than plastic as a storage medium, but that's not always the case.
For one thing, far more people are already using the older storage medium.
Applications can view this as a network attached storage medium.
For this reason many telescopes instead record the radio waves onto a storage medium.
Your storage medium has just about nothing to do with texture quality.
And now you have a very efficient storage medium for that, really could change everything.
In this way the information and the storage medium are inseparable.