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- Blank CDs: Ideal for storing digital images, music, and more, this blank CD set includes 100 high-grade non-rewritable blank CD-R discs
- Blazing Drive Speeds: Engineered with performance recording dye, our CD-R blank discs allow you to record a full disc in less than 2 minutes using a 52X CD drive
- 700MB Capacity: Our CD-R blank discs are ideal for storing up to 700MB of digital images, music (including mp3s), video, and more; Each CD disc stores up to 175 songs or 225 photos
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| Weight | 45 Pounds |
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!