When one compares the internal magic of any solid state memory chip with a hard disk, it becomes very apparent that although disks are highly reliable, they represent an antiquated architecture ...
Floppy disks were developed in the late 1960s but were falling out of fashion around the world three decades later Japan's digital minister has "declared war" on floppy disks and other retro tech ...
With the last manufacturer of 3.5″ floppy disks (FDs) having shut down in 2010, those who are still using this type of storage medium for production and/or retrocomputing purposes have to ...
It's taken until 2024, but Japan has finally said goodbye to floppy disks. Up until last month, people were still asked to submit documents to the government using the outdated storage devices ...
And I don’t think it can be done with a mix of flash and hard disks. Hard disks have such limited characteristics, that in order to build high performance systems or low cost systems ...