[kazinator]

> It's a question of risk. The system is currently working just fine but we know that with each increasing year risk of data degradation on the floppy disks increases and that at some point there will be a catastrophic failure.

The key words in the sentence are: "it's working just fine".

Data degradation of floppy discs is easy: just copy them to fresh ones, and verify that you have a good copy. The images should be safely backed up so they can be regenerated. (Plus there are emulators; a topic covered elsewhere under this submission.)

I mean, are they really using the same 30 year old floppy discs over and over again until they degrade?