Gizmodo 
Enter your username and password.
-
posts about #safesave more → 
A Floppy Disk That's Safer Than Your Hard Drive
Tip your editors:
Editorial Director:
Brian Lam | | Twitter
Editor:
Jason Chen
| AIM | Twitter
Features Editor:
Wilson Rothman
| Twitter
Senior Contributing Editors:
Jesus Diaz
| AIM | Twitter
Mark Wilson, Reviews
| AIM | Twitter
Contributing Editors:
Matt Buchanan
| AIM | Twitter
Adam Frucci
| Twitter
Sean Fallon
| Twitter
Jack Loftus
| Twitter
John Herrman
| Twitter
Dan Nosowitz
Chris Mascari
Danny Allen
| Twitter
Rosa Golijan
| Twitter
Chris Jacob
Columnist:
Brendan I. Koerner
Interns:
Don Nguyen
Kyle VanHemert
Comment Account Questions:
| posts about #safesave more → |
A Floppy Disk That's Safer Than Your Hard Drive |
Original material is licensed under a Creative Commons License permitting non-commercial sharing with attribution.
11/12/08
Typically, I would copy a file from work that I needed to work on at home onto the floppy, and then put it in my shirt breast pocket. I'd get home, change out of my workaday clothes, and not only not work on the file, but not even take the disk out of the shirt.
I'd find the floppy invariably when taking my wash out of the washing machine and the data would be lost. It just wasn't a good, robust, secure format.
11/12/08
so thumb drives are washer safe now?
11/12/08
That is why I believe that thumb drives are defectively designed.
11/12/08
11/12/08
11/12/08