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I was gifted an unopened pack of 3.5" floppy disks. What should I do with them? (wrong answers only) (feddit.org)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I wonder what "limited lifetime warranty" means.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Buy a USB floppy drive for each one and then create a RAID 0 disk array. It'll be super quick and gloriously noisy.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

For anyone not familiar... That would give you 14.4 MB (1.44 MB formatted x 10) of capacity. The rated speeds for a floppy drive is 1000 kilobits per second. So if you did a Raid-0 (striped), let's just say that gives you 10,000 kilobits per second. We convert transfer speeds to storage speeds (8 bits to 1 byte)... Means 1.25MB/s. So best case, it takes you about 11.5 seconds to do a full transfer of the 14.4MB. it actually be much slower because this is best case scenario.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

So you’re saying we just need a few (hundred) dozen more disks and drives? Look out Seagate, you’ve got a zombie competitor coming.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Goodness, the noise

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

But when that noise is used in the right hands ....

https://youtu.be/AtRVTYMA87k?si=kC1U5Q_Y3hOeC1t5

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Yap, watched all 8 minutes. Flopptron 'tamed a tornato'