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23 sats \ 24 replies \ @kristapsk OP 16 Jul \ parent \ on: German Navy warships finally ditch floppy disks after 30 years tech
Magnetic storage is bad at storing data long term.
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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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.
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CD-Rs are different, they will become unreadable in some 5-10 years without even using them. That's why I said "factory produced CDs (not CD-Rs)". Of course, scratching will destroy them too, just don't do it.
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It seems you fail to see the importance of mission. You're talking about consumer data. The USAF secured Nuclear missile tech and the German Navy on warship systems. And you say the medium was 'bad.' 🤣🤣🤣
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It is bad compared to other tech available today. Actually better tech was available already in 1980s, but it was more state of the art, obviously military guys went with older proven tech back then.
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.
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I still don't buy this "hacked easier" argument. You can buy USB FDDs from Amazon for ~20 EUR.
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