Disk Failure and Failed Storage Media

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Do you still know Video 2000, Superdisk or Betamax? Even if you do, you should still be guided by our compilation of failed storage media and data carriers - because retro always goes and makes you happy.

For many old-school tech enthusiasts, data carriers are likely to behave in a very similar way to the buzzwords that are so popular in the IT industry: As soon as one of them starts to get stuck in the brain coils, the next screaming verbal outpouring is already at the back.

Retro media: From "running stupid" to "WTF!?"

Let us not misunderstand ourselves: Over the centuries, numerous important innovations have sprung from the human urge for storage and archiving. However, in the course of time also some media emerged, which were more or less condemned from the outset to agony.

This had very different reasons: At times the idea itself was close to delusion, at times the leading companies were bankrupt due to dubious-obscure business practices even before the market launch. Of course, licensing interludes, cooperations or (at least from time to time) simply determined entrepreneurial skills about the life and death of a storage medium.

Best of Fail: Almost Forgotten Disks

In our picture gallery we have collected physical data carriers, which usually only start patina today in the basements of nerds with a pronounced tendency to nostalgia. 'Of course,' failed at the same time': Some of these media were quite successful - but rarely over a longer period of time.

Supply in the form of dead media is guaranteed in any case - after all, the next generation of the optical storage medium is already in the starting blocks with the Ultra HD Blu-ray. Potential competing formats have long been in development - for example, the protein-coated disc (PCD), whose maximum capacity should be 50 terabytes. The Harvard Medical School had already realized a prototype in cooperation with NEC, then nothing followed. The calm before the storm?