The Persistence of Floppy Disks: A $5 Relic in a Digital Age

Are floppy disks still useful in 2026? Learn why some people still pay $5 for these old storage tools and how they are used for special machines today.

#floppydisks, #oldtech, #techhistory, #digitalstorage, #retrocomputing

https://newsletter.tf/why-people-still-buy-floppy-disks-2026/

Even in 2026, people are still buying floppy disks for $5. This is a surprise because most people use cloud storage now.

#floppydisks, #oldtech, #techhistory, #digitalstorage, #retrocomputing
https://newsletter.tf/why-people-still-buy-floppy-disks-2026/

REVIEW: UGREEN NASYNC DH4300 PLUS – FÜR ANSPRUCHSVOLLE NAS-EINSTEIGER

https://gadgetchecks.de/review-ugreen-nasync-dh4300-plus-fuer-anspruchsvolle-nas-einsteiger/

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High-Capacity SD Cards: Promise of 128TB vs. Market Reality

SDUC cards can hold 128TB, but are they available to buy? Find out why these huge storage cards are hard to find in stores.

#SDUC, #MemoryCard, #TechUpdate, #Storage, #DigitalStorage

https://newsletter.tf/128tb-sd-cards-not-available-for-consumers/

SDUC cards promise up to 128TB of storage, but finding them in stores is very hard. Even 2TB cards are rare for shoppers.

#SDUC, #MemoryCard, #TechUpdate, #Storage, #DigitalStorage

https://newsletter.tf/128tb-sd-cards-not-available-for-consumers/

Why more Millennials are going 'chronically offline' and turning back to analog experiences

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/millennials-are-going-analog

We offer rolling admission for our online grad certificate in Digital Curation, so you can apply any time. Our spring courses will cover #DigitalPreservation #DigitalStorage #Metadata #Migration #Emulation #DigitalForensics #WebArchiving and more

https://DigitalCuration.UMaine.edu

172,000 index cards * 150 words / card [average maximum, using front only] * 1,200 bytes / 150 words [rough average with Unicode encoding] * 1 kb / 1024 bytes * 1MB/1024 kb = approximately 200 MB of text storage

Having it well organized and indexed… Priceless.

Revisiting bsdiff as a tool for digital preservation

by @beet_keeper

I introduced bsdiff in a blog in 2014. bsdiff compares the differences between two files, e.g. broken_file_a and corrected_file_b and creates a patch that can be applied to broken_file_a to generate a byte-for-byte match for corrected_file_b.

On the face of it, in an archive, we probably only care about corrected_file_2 and so why would we care about a technology that patches a broken file?

In all of the use-cases we can imagine the primary reasons are cost savings and removing redundancy in file storage or transmission of digital information. In one very special case we can record the difference between broken_file_a and corrected_file_b and give users a totally objective method of recreating corrected_file_b from broken_file_a providing 100% verifiable proof of the migration pathway taken between the two files.

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