--- title: "Top 10 Extinct Storage Media: How many do you know?" url: https://daily.dev/posts/top-10-extinct-storage-media-how-many-do-you-know--hxl8pybuc source_url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9uNHzvVVHg type: video:youtube source: "ExplainingComputers" published: 2026-06-28T13:02:32.279Z updated: 2026-06-28T13:02:54.963Z tags: ["computer-history"] reading_time: 19 upvotes: 0 comments: 0 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Top 10 Extinct Storage Media: How many do you know? **[ExplainingComputers](https://daily.dev/sources/explainingcomputers)** · 19 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A tour through 10 extinct computer storage media, covering 8-inch, 5.25-inch, and 3.5-inch floppy disks, SyQuest 44MB cartridges, Iomega Zip and Jaz disks, the Atari Portfolio RAM card, magneto-optical disks, DVD-RAM, and MD Data. Each format is examined physically with historical context including launch dates, capacities, use cases, and reasons for obsolescence. The video highlights how billions of floppy disks were sold annually in the mid-1990s and notes that the US Air Force used 8-inch floppies until 2019. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [SuperDisk: The Better Floppy That Never Caught On](https://daily.dev/posts/superdisk-the-better-floppy-that-never-caught-on-liaqtlsq3) · Hackaday · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Why Zip drives dominated the 90s, then vanished almost overnight](https://daily.dev/posts/why-zip-drives-dominated-the-90s-then-vanished-almost-overnight-2moxqaton) · XDA Developers · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#computer-history](https://daily.dev/tags/computer-history) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/top-10-extinct-storage-media-how-many-do-you-know--hxl8pybuc)