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Don't Copy That Floppy (en.wikipedia.org)

submitted 2 weeks ago by dantheclamman@lemmy.world to c/wikipedia@lemmy.world

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[–] tanisnikana@lemmy.world 18 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I won’t copy that floppy anymore.

I will, however, shamelessly steal from the internet.

But not with floppies.

[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

I would love it if floppy disks made a comeback, but with space for terabytes. Or maybe minidiscs with the cool mechanical drive drawers.

Physical media cannot be tracked.

[–] brokenlcd@feddit.it 9 points 2 weeks ago

I mean... We have tape storage. (LTO tapes) It's cheap per TB. But the drives to read them are as expensive as a used car.

[–] violetsoftness@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 weeks ago

i think everyone just uses nvme for that now? You can get little external cases for an m2 drive that are barely bigger than the m2 if thumb drives don't hold enough.