#techmoan on yt is great for learning about weird forgotten media formats

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What's your favourite kind of physical storage media?

If we're talking practical it's hard to beat a dvd or flash drive imo

if we're talking overall? any floppy disk from 8" to 3.25" to the format war at the end of the floppy's life with the superdisk and iomegas zip and clik!/pocketzip disks. I look at them and go fuck YES now that's some physical fucking media.

Historically, it's gotta be the competitors in the flash storage wars. That's the most interesting format war IMO because so much random shit came out. Literally:

Secure Digital cards, the winner. You probably know this one.

Sandisk's Compact Flash, the close second that saw use in professional photography until SD could get enough capacity.

Sony's Memory Stick, notably NOT usb flash drives- even though Memory Stick lost so hard that's all you'll find when you google it.

Sandisk and Siemens' MultiMediaCard, notably not SD despite the visual similarities.

Toshiba's Smart Media.

AMD, Fujitsu, and Sharp's Miniature Card.

Olympus, Fujifilm, and Kodak's xD-Picture Card.

Sandisk, Sony, and Nikon's XQD card.

Then on top of having 8 separate, competing formats, each format had subformats. Like CFast and Mini/MicroSD.

And if you want proprietary it's a tie between GBA cartidges and PSP disks. They're the most satisfying game formats IMO.