Anyone else notice that all the 3 1/4 inch floppy diks are going away and it seems like all the diks these days are bigger and harder?
2006-07-28 02:36:33 · 7 answers · asked by Aaron W 3 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
They are obsolete, most pc's don't even have 3.5 floppy drives any more. The media formats today are larger and more reliable.
The first factor was size. A 3.5 could hold 1.44mb of data compared to a CD which can hold 700mb. I forget the capacity of a DVD but it is even more enormous.
The second factor is durability. You could destroy a floppy with a magnet and often times they would go bad for no apparent reason. CDs and DVDs do not have these issues because they are not magnetic. Also, CDs, DVDs and memory sticks have no moving parts, another big contributing factor to their durability.
2006-07-28 02:44:11 · answer #1 · answered by Lubers25 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
The first floppy drives used an 8-inch disk (later called a "diskette" as it got smaller,
For a few years, computers had both FDD sizes (3.5-inch and 5.25-inch). But by the mid-1990s, the 5.25-inch version had fallen out of popularity, partly because the diskette's recording surface could easily become contaminated by fingerprints through the open access area. Now floppy disks are ancient history as most new machinces come with CD rewriteables and now that is even becoming extenct with dvd rewriteable
Like everything In with the new and out with the Old( as in floppys are like the old 8 tracks in recording )
As people and computers grew so did the way they wanted to store data
and the way they wanted to use data for video and audio therefoer floppy disk were of no longer much use
So People advancement in learning home Computers and the means to meet the needs had to be met Out with the old and in with the new
Like Some of us that have 8 tracks still We still have floppys so truly they never will disappear
2006-07-28 09:58:25 · answer #2 · answered by Wowwie 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
floppys arent being used as much and there really isnt a use for them. Me, I will always have use a floppy disk and drive. When the coputer goes down and the CD-ROM wont open, there you go, floppy bot disk to the rescue.
Floppys are being outused by flash drives, thumb drives, all those small 256MB to 2.0GB USB drives.
Considering floppies carrt 1.44MB on a 3 1/2" disk and a small 2" by 3/4" disk can hold 512MB, (356 floppies on one flash drive) thats tell you where technology is going
2006-07-28 10:06:36 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
They are a really inefficient storage media, plus we have DVDs that can hold like 1000x more information on them. Of course they will go away. Most computers don't even have floppy drives any more. Plus, just about every program you find nowadays is too big to fit on a floppy anyway so they are basically useless in today's world.
2006-07-28 09:41:55 · answer #4 · answered by Dan Theman 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
.......the floppy is going away thanks to flash memory cards and usb portable drives. At my workplace we have just about gotten rid of the floppy disk drives because we no longer use them. They are outdated. Things you can do instead of using a floppy disk : 1) use a usb drive 2) use a flash memory card and card reader 3) burn the files to cd or dvd 4) transfer the files via a portable hard drive 5) transfer the files via email or networked drives.
2006-07-28 09:51:15 · answer #5 · answered by Kiko 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To a typical PC user it means nothing...
But as long as we are still using DOS structured OS's we're still gonna use that good 'ol floppy disk...
2006-07-28 11:29:17 · answer #6 · answered by Rus†edKoKote™ 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they are HISTORY
man a few years down the road u will be asking me wat happened to cds? with dvd s and blu-rays coming in to the market
2006-07-28 11:20:07 · answer #7 · answered by PRIYA B 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋