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What's wrong with 8" floppy disks? They seem easy to manufacture (same as a VHS tape but cut differently), are pretty reliable if you keep them away from magnet
by 5ilv3r 10y ago
What's wrong with 8" floppy disks? They seem easy to manufacture (same as a VHS tape but cut differently), are pretty reliable if you keep them away from magnets (Which is common sense), and don't really have a shelf life problem until the plastic gets brittle. Hell, if they degrade, you can even retrieve the undamaged parts with no fuss.
Who wins by moving to SD?
- hodwik 10y agoExactly, this isn't so far off from tape drives which most orgs still use.
- Grishnakh 10y agoThe problem is trusting such a critical function to ancient hardware that's bound to wear out at some point, and for which you can't buy a replacement. Disk drives don't last forever; they're fairly complex machines with moving parts.
- DrScump 10y agoMeanwhile, lots of present-day sites use a diskette icon to represent a "save" function. A diskette? Seriously?
- JupiterMoon 10y agoLanguage and symbols evolve. When that icon was first used it was a disk. Now it means save. Users know what it means.