Review: Hardware Canucks
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For many, many years the Floppy Disk had been the de facto standard for removable storage. In its day it was fast enough, durable enough and most importantly cheap enough for nearly everyone's needs. While in some aspects CDs & DVDs have replaced the floppy disk, neither optical disk format was durable enough to completely replace it. Even today most computers come standard with a Floppy Disk Drive and it really wasn’t until the advent of flash based re-recordable media that a true floppy disk alternative came into the limelight. Since then, flash drive or “thumb drives” have steadily increased in speed, have become cheaper and most importantly their storage capacity has also increased in leaps and bounds.
Dec 28, 2007, 07:52 AM
