How-To Geek on MSN

Before the USB flash drive: 5 'floppy killers' that lost the retro storage war

Why Zip disks and LS-120s couldn't defeat the 1.44MB disk ...
How-To Geek on MSN

Floppy disk hack: How a pair of scissors doubled your storage in 1992

Why the famous 'square hole' hack was a ticking time bomb ...
PC World

Yes, you can still use floppy disks with Windows 11! Here’s how

Invented back in 1971, the floppy disk is remembered as one of the most iconic and reliable disk storage solutions. Specifically, it was the 3.5-inch floppy that became a literal icon, one we still ...

Seagate Ships Highest Capacity Hard Drives To Leading Data Center Companies

Seagate’s now shipping 40+TB HDDs to support growing AI data center workloads and are qualified at two hyperscale data center ...

Why There's Simply No Need For Disc Drives Anymore

A hardware feature that used to be standard on computers and consoles has quietly disappeared. Several practical shifts explain why it stopped mattering.
Hackaday

Diagnosing A Mysterious Fault With A Commodore 1541 Disk Drive

Recently [TheRetroChannel] came across an interesting failure mode on a Commodore 1541 5.25″ floppy disk drive, in the form of the activity LED blinking just once after power-up with the ...