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San Francisco to pay $212 million to end reliance on 5.25-inch floppy disks(arstechnica.com)

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It’s not quite as crazy as it seems. The older/larger floppy disk formats were more reliable due to their lower track density.

There was more surface area per byte of data. The old floppy disks could be written once and read for years in harsher environments. New floppy disks we more prone to failure after a few years.

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