I was browsing a technical store’s website and came across some DVDs. On sale. You’d need an optical drive to use them, unless you use them to decorate your walls
If you do use them, what do you use them for and why do you not just use hard drives, SSDs or USB thumb drives instead?
This is not a hate post. My whole existence is living in the 90’s, so… :P
Fuck bud I still use floppy disks. It’s damn hard to find a pc with a dedicated floppy drive. Those usb floppy drives fail writing to floppy more often than not.
I have a desktop floppy drive with a USB adapter. It seems to do the job.
Cool! Are floppys still being manufactured? I’d love to make a rescue boot floppy for when I need to do maintenance on my system!
They are not being manufactured anymore but it is still possible to buy new old stock. One guy is trying to keep them in circulation (he owns floppydisk.com) and I found a somewhat recent article that has some good info as well: https://www.raconteur.net/technology/the-floppygeddon-cometh
Yeah I kina lucked out I found a 10 pack of new ones on Amazon about 2 years ago. And recently, while cleaning out an old auto performance shop, there was like 2 or 3 55gal drums full of used and new floppy disks.
Also more recently there was something about Japan finaly upgrading their i.t infrastructure from floppy disks to more modern tech.
Hell apparently they still make cassette tapes for use in prisons because you can’t make a shank out of one with the materials they use for them.
Casettes are being reintroduced in the (indie) music industry as well
Yeah it’s really bizarre seeing my teen get excited about buying cassettes and vinyl
I started buying CDs from Japan and on the used market (thank god discogs).
Pretty weird :D