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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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[–] fubarx@lemmy.ml 14 points 3 weeks ago

All the deserved ribbing aside, if you had to design a removable, R/W, high-capacity, environmentally tolerant, secure, fault-tolerant, mission critical storage system that could last 25 years, starting NOW...

What would you pick?

That's a tough one, even if you design future hardware upgrades into the system.