Reddit mentions: The best blank floppy disks

A 3.5" floppy is, on the high side, approximately 3.3mm thick.

A stack of 5,970 3.5" floppies is therefore roughly 19.7 meters - over 64 feet - high, until it inevitably tips over.

Now, you might be thinking that it'd be easiest to make a bunch of smaller stacks, and you'd be right. A hundred sixty-floppy stacks would fit neatly on a pallet; each stack would be a quite safe ~198mm in height - 7.8" - and the whole operation would be less than a meter across each way (~90cm by ~94cm). All of these dimensions are rounded up, if anything, to allow for a bit of pallet wrap, paper dividers, whatever.

"The pallet is overkill, Val!" Perhaps so, for a cuboid that small, but at a weight of ~19 grams per diskette, we're looking at over 113 kg - 250 lbs - of floppy.

Hmm. Let's divide this up so that it can be carried up the stairs by hand.

A standard case of paper, here in the States - 10 reams of 8.5x11" writing paper (like A4 sheets but shorter), has roughly 11x17" usable footprint and 8.5" height - about 28x43x21cm. This lets us put twelve stacks of up to 65 floppies in each box before we consider how many we can stuff down the half-floppy-width gap in the side - may as well not bother with that, honestly, if it only saves one person one trip up the stairs and disrupts the order of the disks. These 780 floppies weigh about 14.8 kg, or under 33 lbs - light enough for an out-of-shape PFY to handle.

Now we're only looking at eight boxes of floppies, with the last box being only two-thirds full. This is a totally reasonable backup solution!

Okay, there are a few missing details here - reliability issues (with both disks and drives!), the number of man-hours required to have someone swap and label the disks, and, of course, the $2,500-plus-shipping cost of the disks themselves, even from the suspiciously-cheap brigade - if by some miracle the disks all work out of the box.

Now you know!

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Verbatim-45215-3-5in-Colour-Floppy/dp/B0007OEMM6/ref=lp_430460031_1_16?s=computers&ie=UTF8&qid=1523377185&sr=1-16

there you are.. £50 for 2 red ones... im sure theres cheeper around

do they need to be working floppys? ie actually store data? or are they a wedding gift thing, with the wedding date on it kind of thing? as maybe toy floppy disks might be the thing

That disk says Disk 1 of 2639. Is that accurate?

A single floppy disk can hold up to 2.88mb on it, but in practice these were almost never made, and 1.44mb floppies were and are much more popular.. That is very small: a decent PDF file could easily overload it.

According to this site, on a DVD Windows 10 x86_64 takes up about 3.5gb of space. I don't know how to prove this, but it sounds reasonable, considering that Kali Linux requires 2.9gb.

Now, it's time for some math. Dividing 3500 by 1.44 gives us 2430.55555555556. Rounded up, that is 2431. In order to install Windows 10 from floppy discs, you would need over 2000 floppy disks. Therefore, that number was pretty accurate.

How much would that set you back?

Our equation would be along the lines of "total = licence cost + 2431 * floppy disk cost". Let's solve for our variables, first by learning that a copy of Windows costs 140$, which from the view of a Linux user is fucking ridiculous.

Next, we need to figure out how much the floppy disks cost. I found this deal on Amazon that offers 50 for 71.35$. This works out to a cost of 1.43$ per disk.

Multiplying 1.43 by 2413 gets us 3476.33$, plus the cost of the Windows licence.

For a great price of $59.99 you can get a pack of floppy at Amazon.

These ones are cheaper.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01N5YFBRJ?psc=1

It's a pretty niche market these days, mostly industrial and commercial legacy equipment and a few hobbyists.

http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/why-do-floppy-disks-still-exist-the-world-isnt-ready-to-move-on/

Actually my first MP3 player, a Creative Nomad, used SmartMedia cards. There was a horrifically USB1.1 cable, which was 1mb/sec, as opposed to 480mb/sec for USB2 for about $300. Also, it meant I couldn't use the SmartMedia card (which was $80) in my camera, since it was specific to Creative.

Alternatively, there was a floppy reader for about 10 bucks that let you read and write to it as an A: drive that was 8MB (yes, MB, not GB); it was about four times faster.

And, of course you can still get it at Amazon link

Yep: https://www.amazon.com/Verbatim-DataLife-Density-Microdisks-Diskettes/dp/B002MBPJNS

All the reviews are even from the last couple of years.

Also, for a newer storage method: https://www.amazon.com/Verbatim-Surface-100-Disc-Spindle-94712/dp/B0001LR1KU

Ebay or Amazon

http://www.ebay.com/bhp/5-1-4-floppy-disk

http://www.amazon.com/3m-Ds-dd-10-Diskettes/dp/B001USTK6G

What's wrong playing Wastland though a emulator? This is the Dos version played in Dosbox https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_gPe036iK0&list=PLA85F6FB139739583

Nah, you can do it if you like. Here's the secret list of components:

Magnet , Disk , Paint pen.

Here is the listing, which has gone up since I last bought them, unfortunately. If you're going to be working with DOS-era PCs then Double Density (720KB) is a good thing to have. You'll probably find High Density (1.44MB) disks more easily, but some DOS machines won't read them properly. My only MSX with a built-in drive is Double Density only.

Can you wait for Amazon shipping?

https://www.amazon.com/Imation-15847-1-44Mb-Floppy-Disk/dp/B00081GF8M

I just ordered a couple boxes of NOS 3.5" floppies from Amazon. They're a bit pricey, but nobody is making them anymore.
https://www.amazon.com/MAXELL-556531-Floppy-Disks-30-pk/dp/B00009QP2Q/ref=sr_1_5?keywords=3.5%22+floppy&qid=1551195701&s=gateway&sr=8-5

They still have new equipment available (or refurbished).

Floppy Disks

Disk Cleaner

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Article about it

I think they mean this sorta thing. Big enough to store twenty or thirty or so, and you sort of flick through them from above, reading the labels until you find whatever you're looking for.

Here you can buy 5.25" 'diskettes' off Amazon

Right here: https://www.amazon.com/Verbatim-Data-Density-Diskettes-MD2-HD/dp/B007HB0172/ref=pd_lpo_vtph_23_lp_img_3?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=G087TMT6VGW1MFWKMVPW

What is this trickery?!?!?

It basically means that he's taken terabytes of data (in this case visuals for the cube) and compressed it down to a file size enough to store in a Floppy Disk

Memorex actually sold rainbow packs of 10 5 1/4" inch disks, which these appear to be.

I have a few unopened cases in my basement. Cataloged, on shelf, in a bar-coded box. I could have them in 15 minutes.

3 1/2" version still sold: http://www.amazon.com/Memorex-32103674-Formatted-Discontinued-Manufacturer/dp/B00004Z5KS

You can still buy them. Not old enough yet for museums.

https://www.amazon.com/Floppy-Diskettes-Formatted-MF-2HD-Manufactured/dp/B006HI22LO

https://www.amazon.com/Imation-trade-Diskettes-Format-Rainbow/dp/B00006IBKM?SubscriptionId=AKIAILSHYYTFIVPWUY6Q&tag=duckduckgo-ffab-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00006IBKM

Or you know, Amazon.

I still have floppy disk's laying around. They still work. I can still insert them into an external floppy disk drive. The technology is also worthless but could easily help a kid in the third world when they lack any form of technology to begin with. The tech is completely obsolete. Oh an look.. Amazon still has them for sale