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Floppy disks??
Nuclear arsenals use floppies, and for good reason.
Personally I use spinning hard drives as floppies, but same idea (offline storage, usually off-site as well if I have time)
I'm gonna need an explanation as to floppies and hard drives being so similar. I can easily buy a brand new hard drive. Floppy disks and drives, not so much...
Both are spinning magnetic disks. I guess they meant the reliability aspect of the storage medium.
I honestly had several catastrophic failures of floppy disks that made me stop trusting them. imo floppy disks are the least reliable way to store data by far
I don't know how reliable SSD is compared to magnetic but I guess they do fail too. Good thing about SSD is that it doesn't have moving parts so at least one fewer points of failure.
Depends on how much writing you are doing. I think that if you're doing tons of writes all the time, HDD might edge out SSD, but it all depends on a lot.
Floppies were an entirely different beast. Instead of a disk failing every few years, a floppy disk that hadn't been used in a few months, in my experience, was about 50/50 if it was bad or corrupted in some way.
I'd think Blu-ray m-disc would be a bit safer than a floppy that could have a bit flip from being too close to an iPhone (magsafe).