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I wonder what "limited lifetime warranty" means.
Write MP3s to them and use them to play one song in a modern car.
(I saw a video of someone playing a clip of music using a USB floppy drive)
Store your important data on them.
Get ten USB floppy drives and set up a raid:
https://web.archive.org/web/20080117032102/http://phoenix.cc.edu:80/MegaFloppy.htm
Copy them
Copy that floppy!
You build your own floppotron of course
That was amazing⦠so much free time and hydro!
Put them in a mdadm raid array
find the most complex AI model file you can put on it
Youβll want to download and install the most up-to-date drivers. I believe this model benefits from a slight overclock too, so maybe look at purchasing a decent aftermarket cooler
Eat it
Put them in a raidz2 situation
Stick them on a wall like an artpiece
Live action reboot of ReBoot
Abort, Retry, or Fail. But all at the same time.
Unwrap them and open it and then put them all back so they look used. Write on the box in sharpie "Backups 1/127". Delete the critical production system at your work. When someone asks where the backups are, hand them these.
Make that "Backups Prod 3/127"
You mean 3.5" drink coasters?
This is actually a good answer, not a wrong one.
"3D save button coasters"
THEY BELONG IN A MUSEUM!!!
Put a 240p rick and roll video inside and write cryptic labels on them. Spread them around the city and rest knowing that someone is going to go through hoops only to get Rick rolled.
OP said wrong answers only, not the only right answer
"Rick and roll" π
Oh man, make it a split zip file of 1.44Mb on each disk, hidden in separate places with hints. A Rick roll treasure hunt
Sell them to someone who will test and resell them to the airline or medical industry... Manufacturing is a likely customer as well, plenty of legacy equipment there that's airgapped and still running decades-old hw/sw.
Youtube warning, some Boeing 747s
(This is a wrong answer since you only have a single pack. If you had several cases, you might actually be able to make a buck)
Write your own copy of Windows 10, minus the bloat. You'll probably have 2 floppies left
With those in hand, start waving them around maniacally and shout "WHY IS IT CALLED A FLOPPY IF IT'S SO DAMN HARD!?"
Anus... Right into the anus...
Use them
Thank Lord they come already formatted.
Get them hard!