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For Floppy Disc to USB Drive
A week ago my 12 years old daughter who spends far too much time on computers inquired about "What's a floppy disk?" It seemed quite shocking in my experience that someone who spends so much time on a computer hasn't heard about a floppy disk.
I remember in my friends' astonishment at my laptop lacking a floppy drive just 6 years back.
The short time between my friends' surprise inside my laptop and my daughter becoming computer literate was enough for piece of hardware to visit from being a near-essential a part of any computer to becoming an obscurity.
It simply proves the speed with which hardware alterations in computing.
Even so though, rewritable CDs had become the standard method of transferring data. These were/are very unreliable though, with problems often emerging through software and hardware incompatibilities.
Also around 6 years ago, a much more reliable, although more costly, alternative was emerging; the USB drive. This cut back the ability to simply drop and drag files to removable media. It meant files might be copied towards the new drive as simply any folder on the computer and it wouldn't take considerably longer to do it either. The average memory size wasn't bigger than the usual CD around 1GB but could be purchased with up to 8GB.
The only real downside of USB Flash drives was the price. While CDs and floppy disks could be bought for pennies, USB drives cost pounds, and lots of them. As we've arrived at expect with technology, with time, more and more might be squeezed onto these portable devices and the prices continue to drop for a price unlike other things. You can now buy a 32GB USB Drive for less than £50. To store much data on floppy discs, you'd need over more than 20,000 of them!
What exactly would be the next method to move data around after USB drives? Rewritable Blu-ray discs can store 25GB of data and price around £4 each. The downside is that, as with rewritable DVDs, these suffer incompatibility problems and for the time being, the problem is increased as not many computers include Blu-ray drives.
There's one solution which will eventually see an end to any or all debate over the easy transfer data. The Internet provides a practically unlimited amount of storage space, in a fairly low cost per GB. More to the point, as many devices possess a permanent Web connection, you don't have to physically bring the data media in one spot to another.
A USB drive happens to be the fastest way to transfer data. Eventually the web will be a perfect means to fix all data problems. For the time being although it is held back by relatively slow data rates as compared to the likes of USB drives.
