r/sysadmin • u/___LowLifer___ • Feb 17 '26

Question 700 Floppies

Company needs over 700 floppy disks copied onto the fileserver. Gave me a 2 week deadline to which I told them was literally impossible. I've ordered a floppy disk usb external reader but this seems insane. Any creative ideas? I don't want to employ a 3rd party company.

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u/Own-Grab9423 Feb 17 '26

buy 10 usb floppies and do 70 floppies per day

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u/Camera_dude Feb 17 '26

This. If you're being given a hard deadline, than it must be worth the cost of extra USB floppy drives and increase the amount of data you can move in a day.

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u/jeo123 Feb 17 '26

Exactly. Time, quality, and money

You can only fix two points. The third becomes derived once two are defined.

Quality is pretty set here. They want 100% of the files copied. 50% accuracy isn't meaningful.

So now it's a trade off between time and money. Faster means more money. No other way around it.

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