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It lives on in the save icon. But in all seriousness you're right, floppy as a medium for data storage is dead. Unless you're the US gov. According to Wikipedi

It lives on in the save icon. But in all seriousness you're right, floppy as a medium for data storage is dead. Unless you're the US gov. According to Wikipedia: "In May 2016 the United States Government Accountability Office released a report that covered the need to upgrade or replace legacy computer systems within Federal Agencies. According to this document, old IBM Series/1 minicomputers running on 8-inch floppy disks are still used to coordinate "the operational functions of the United States’ nuclear forces..." The government plans to update some of the technology by the end of the 2017 fiscal year." [1] 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floppy_disk#Use_in_the_early_21st_century https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floppy_disk#Use_in_the_early_2...

agumonkey 9y ago
Optical discs are relegated to back shelves too. Hard to beat cheap rewritable nand flash. ps: I'd be curious about a tiny, 2017 laptop friendly optical disc storage. Say a 2.5" RW BD layer in cartridge. A modern mini disc.
- blacksmith_tb 9y ago
  I doubt anything could be compact enough to be laptop friendly in the sense of being a physical part of the machine - but external USB 3 BD burners are quite small (powered over usb, too), I have a Samsung which works fine.
  - agumonkey 9y ago
    i don't know, a small radius "may" help remove mecanical constraints, and with a non stacked lens design sdcard reader height device. I was mostly wonder about the psychological aspect of form factor. naked optical disks are non-personal, mini discs weren't. You interacted with them freely, carried them as is in your pocket. A large enough yet tiny enough reincarnation might be "fun".
- mtanski 9y ago
  There are people using optical media for long term storage. So I am not counting it out as a storage medium. In my classification I would put it in cold storage tier.
  - agumonkey 9y ago
    Surely. Although I'd have thought for long time storage magnetic tapes were cheaper.
hackuser 9y ago
On one hand, people complain about government spending. On the other, they complain about government's old equipment.

agumonkey 9y ago

Optical discs are relegated to back shelves too. Hard to beat cheap rewritable nand flash. ps: I'd be curious about a tiny, 2017 laptop friendly optical disc storage. Say a 2.5" RW BD layer in cartridge. A modern mini disc.

blacksmith_tb 9y ago
I doubt anything could be compact enough to be laptop friendly in the sense of being a physical part of the machine - but external USB 3 BD burners are quite small (powered over usb, too), I have a Samsung which works fine.
- agumonkey 9y ago
  i don't know, a small radius "may" help remove mecanical constraints, and with a non stacked lens design sdcard reader height device. I was mostly wonder about the psychological aspect of form factor. naked optical disks are non-personal, mini discs weren't. You interacted with them freely, carried them as is in your pocket. A large enough yet tiny enough reincarnation might be "fun".
mtanski 9y ago
There are people using optical media for long term storage. So I am not counting it out as a storage medium. In my classification I would put it in cold storage tier.
- agumonkey 9y ago
  Surely. Although I'd have thought for long time storage magnetic tapes were cheaper.

hackuser 9y ago

On one hand, people complain about government spending. On the other, they complain about government's old equipment.