The Floppy is Dead: Time to Move Memories to the Cloud

Yahoo/PC Magazine ^ | 4.26.10 | Lance Ulanoff

[DemforBush]

Sony's decision to end 3.5-inch disk production is just another signal that local storage media and platforms cannot be trusted with your precious data...

[DemforBush]

I not only still have a pile of 3.5's, I even still have a box of 5 1/4" floppies somewhere.

Just thought I'd share that. :-)

[Army Air Corps]

I haven’t used floppies for years because of USB drives.

[Oldexpat]

I bought a 3.5 drive that plugs into a windows computer. But I will finally transfer my floppies to something else.

[mlocher]

Who needs a floppy when you can use a hard drive?

[Klemper]

Your 5 1/4” floppies.. you didn’t specify if they were Single Sided or Double Sided

[Domandred]

I’m not even sure if most of my files will even fit on a 3.5 anymore...

[Psycho_Bunny]

"just another signal that local storage media and platforms cannot be trusted with your precious data..."

What an idiotic statement.

[Domandred]

Doesn’t matter. Many brands you could just make your own notch and they become double :)

[gura]

You can just cut a hole in the other side with a hole punch to make them double sided you know. :-)

[DBrow]

There are yet larger floppies than 5 1/4.

Then there is Winchester, Zip, stacked mag disks, WORM optical drives, wax tablets, clay cylinders...Tofler was not wrong, and Moore’s Law is not enough.

[TChad]

I not only still have a pile of 3.5's, I even still have a box of 5 1/4" floppies somewhere.

Have you tried to get any data off those old floppies recently? Mine seem to have all gone bad.

[mowowie]

My giant pile of blank 3.5 floppys all have the name AOL stamped on them.

[DemforBush]

At my first job, we had an ancient computer (merely very, very old then) that used 8” floppies to load the spreadsheet software.

Fun times, really. I love those old machines.

[mylife]

Anyone want to buy 2 cases of optical mini discs cheap?

[DemforBush]

I looked at a couple of the 3.5’s recently, just for kicks. They all seemed fine. Don’t know about the 5 1/4” ones, though...they were formatted for the Commodore 64 I had back in high school.

I, uh, am not real good about throwing things away, I guess. :-)

[mylife]

I use those for targets.

[posterchild]

Were they Elephant brand?

[bitterohiogunclinger]

“Have you tried to get any data off those old floppies recently? Mine seem to have all gone bad.”

Many times this is due to the disk drive you're trying to read them with. Does it keep insisting that the disk is unformatted?

[mylife]

They are brand new...

[ak267]

my brother just got 64gb thumb drive....good enough to ghost a hard drive???