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    7 months ago

    Tape storage 100% is still a thing and is valued for a lot of truly critical data.

    Also, WAY too much critical infrastructure still depends on floppy drives because… there is not a good reason to upgrade the hardware when they need data on the order of hundreds of kilobytes every couple of months.

    Storage with purpose will be preserved. Maybe not in a computer sold in best buy but very much in “computing” as a whole.

    I can’t think of any situation where THIS disc is useful. But optical drives themselves are 100% going to remain a thing because they provide write once data storage (and OS installation) which is incredibly useful in secure environments.