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Synology announced its new flagship storage solution for businesses - the PAS7700 with up to 1.65 PB of NVMe SSD storage.
Floppy disks still fly—literally. Here’s why some airplanes in 2025 still rely on 1990s tech for navigation updates.
Although the floppy disk was replaced by more efficient storage technologies in the 1990s, some firms still rely on these ...
The last time I was blown away by SSD speeds was when I fired up my PS5 for the first time – watching Spider-Man load in less than 5 seconds. But now, it’s happened again thanks to SanDisk’s new ...
A leading lawmaker from the nation’s most interconnected air travel state warned that outdated technology – like "floppy disks" – and ongoing air traffic control (ATC) crises at key hubs are ...
There are some concerns about the safety aspect, as floppy disks are said to be more resilient compared to a modern-age system reliant on USB-based storage interfaces.
Invented back in 1971, the floppy disk is remembered as one of the most iconic and reliable disk storage solutions. Specifically, it was the 3.5-inch floppy that became a literal icon, one we ...
Floppy disks were the dominant form of data storage in the 1980s and 90s — before the advent of CD-ROM, USB drives and more advanced hard disk drives. AP Three floppy disks are used for loading ...
Floppy disks may have been at the forefront of digital storage in the 1980s, but the format has been replaced multiple times over by 2024.
Information Technology and In-Service Support invited tenders for the development of an "emulating storage system to replace the floppy disk unit" for use on warships. Just a few years earlier ...
FAT32, part of the File Allocation Table family of file systems, is the oldest of the three, having been originally created for floppy disk storage. It was introduced in Windows 95, but remains ...