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21 sats \ 25 replies \ @Satosora 16 Jul 2024 \ parent \ on: German Navy warships finally ditch floppy disks after 30 years tech
Yes, its a pretty foolproof way of using and moving data.
Magnetic storage is bad at storing data long term.
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That must be why the U.S. and German military used it for half a century and three decades, huh?
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Pretty sure they create new copies and test from time to time to mitigate this. When it was introduced, it was state of the art tech. But technically some optical storage would be better.
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Show me a medium where this is not true for some duration?
Also, of course there is better. But you said this was BAD. Language is important.
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Jazz drives were self contained.
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Factory produced CDs (not CD-Rs). I have music CDs produced in 1980s that still work without any issues.
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Also, I recall lots of damaged, scratched, unreadable CD-Rs.
Again, no one said there isn't better. One can argue that something is better without the other thing being bad. But I guess not to some people.
Hence why you make a copy.
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