Japan’s Digital Minister, Taro Kono, is celebrating the demise of the floppy disk. 'We have won the war on floppy disks on June 28,' Kono told Reuters news agency earlier today.

Rather than use an optical process for storage, this drive used magnetic tape to store its data. To this day, HDDs as well as the seemingly dead floppy disk use magnets to store data.

We are developing thin optical disks using paper-thin 0.1-mm-thick substrate as a means of recording and archiving broadcast-quality HDTV programs.

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Even finding a floppy disk drive of this size is a difficult task, but this was further compounded not just by the age of the disk but that the data wasn’t encoded in the expected format.

The final result is an optical disk with a three-dimensional stack of data layers capable of holding a whopping 1 petabit (Pb) of information—that’s equivalent to 125,000 gigabytes of data.

Floppy disks are still around outside Japan, too. The embroidery and avionics industries use them, and until recently the United States’ nuclear arsenal did, too.

New optical disc has room for 1,000 copies of Baldur's Gate 3 The DVD and Blu-ray era isn't over yet, as scientists demonstrate the potential for a laser-based disc with 125TB of storage space.

No, really! Floppy drives still live on in many surprising places, and not just the homes of die-hard techies.

Optical discs, such as DVDs and Blu-ray discs, are durable and inexpensive. A standard single-layer Blu-ray disc can store 25 gigabytes.

Rather than use an optical process for storage, this drive used magnetic tape to store its data. To this day, HDDs as well as the seemingly dead floppy disk use magnets to store data.