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minus-square0x0@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down1·2 months ago This is more akin to when Sony decided to stop making floppy disks. The market is there for now, but it’s just not worth it from a financial perspective. Ironically Japan is just now phasing out floppies, so there’ll still be a market for a while. A NAS is mostly geared for online media storage, whereas disks are for offline.
minus-squareBlueMacaw@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months agoThat’s just the government though, similar to how a lot of the systems in the US still run on COBOL (including the IRS).
Ironically Japan is just now phasing out floppies, so there’ll still be a market for a while.
A NAS is mostly geared for online media storage, whereas disks are for offline.
That’s just the government though, similar to how a lot of the systems in the US still run on COBOL (including the IRS).