Comment on San Francisco to pay $212 million to end reliance on 5.25-inch floppy disks

cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• bobs_monkey@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Compact flash? Nah, that was primetime for Iomega Zip Drives!

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  • clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Fear the click of death!

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  • cm0002@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Fuck yo Zip Drives, all my homies use SyQuest

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  • cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It would have been replaced a long time ago if that was the case.

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  • ayyy@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    SuperDisk gang ride up!

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• dgmib@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s not quite as crazy as it seems. The older/larger floppy disk formats were more reliable due to their lower track density.

  There was more surface area per byte of data. The old floppy disks could be written once and read for years in harsher environments. New floppy disks we more prone to failure after a few years.

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