Most optical discs are a standard 12cm in diameter, are round, and besides some potential manufacturing incompatibilities with certain optical drives, are expected to load and be recognized in most ...

Slanted exterior edges on tiny magnetic disks could lead to a breakthrough in data processing. Materials researchers were able to create magnetic vortices with a diameter of only one third of a ...

When Sony stopped manufacturing new floppy disks in 2011, most assumed the outdated storage medium – of which there is only a finite, decreasing number left – would die off. Although from a "different ...

Musician Espen Kraft stores his sound samples on floppy disks, using them to make his music for their authentic sound (Credit: Espen Kraft) The last floppy disk was made over a decade ago and doesn't ...