@owashii@plush.city the medium is somewhat limited by the nature of being flexible and of having the magnetic medium itself mounted separately from the heads; it limits how well you can keep things aligned -F
@owashii@plush.city and you can't do the same trickery with magnetic heads as you can with optical media lasers; the lasers can be moved with very lightweight lenses that can be moved extremely quickly to track misalignments, but magnetic heads need to move the whole thing -F
@owashii@plush.city though moving from a leadscrew design like floppy disks used to a voice coil design like hard drives use might allow more agile head movement -F
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@owashii@plush.city and you can't do the same trickery with magnetic heads as you can with optical media lasers; the lasers can be moved with very lightweight lenses that can be moved extremely quickly to track misalignments, but magnetic heads need to move the whole thing
-F