I deas man David Delahunty is behind a new flash storage device which looks like a classic MacOS folder icon dragged into the ...

I can do math in my head (a skill honed, in particular, by the need to calculate file sizes limited by the capacity of a floppy disk), and I still have pretty good handwriting, although I increasingly ...

Rather than use an optical process for storage, this drive used magnetic tape to store its data. To this day, HDDs as well as the seemingly dead floppy disk use magnets to store data.

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Disk Jockey also has support for the BlueSCSI and PiSCSI SCSI drive replacement devices, and the Floppy Emu device from Big Mess 'o Wires. AKAI music sampler formats are also supported.

In 1998, an estimated 2 billion floppy disks were sold, according to the Recording Media Industries Association of Japan. Since then global demand has fallen by around two-thirds to an estimated 700 ...

Updating the floppy drive driver ensures that you have the most recent software to manage the hardware, which could fix the FLOPPY_INTERNAL_ERROR. If you’re not actually using a floppy disk drive, ...

Third-party external DVD drives can be had for as little as $20, and external Blu-ray drives start around $50, making the $79 DVD-only SuperDrive an iffy financial proposition. It was also never ...

By comparison, it would take more than 22,000 standard floppy disks containing 1.44 MB of data to match the storage of a single 32 GB thumb drive.

The floppy disk, invented in the 1970s, was once a ubiquitous part of computing. Other forms of memory like flash drives and internet cloud storage have since taken over.

Floppy disks were eventually made obsolete by compact discs, USBs and flash drives, as a smaller and more portable way to share files from computer to computer, with more storage capacity too.

A peer-reviewed paper shows the potential for a new optical disc that contains a massive petabit of data, which translates to 125TB. That's enough room to contain 1,000 copies of Baldur's gate 3.