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A week ago my 12 years old daughter who spends far too much time on computers asked me "What's a floppy disk?" It seemed quite shocking to me that someone who spends a lot time on the computer hasn't heard about a floppy disk.

I remember in my friends' astonishment inside my laptop not having a floppy drive just 6 years back.

The small amount of time between my friends' surprise at my laptop and my daughter becoming computer literate was enough for bit of hardware to go from being a near-essential part of any computer to just as one obscurity.

It simply proves the speed with which hardware changes in computing.

Even so though, rewritable CDs took over as standard method of transferring data. These were/are very unreliable though, with problems often emerging through software and hardware incompatibilities.

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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 could be copied to the new drive as simply any folder on the pc and it wouldn't take much longer to get it done either. The average memory size wasn't bigger than a CD at around 1GB but could be purchased with as many as 8GB.

The only real downside of USB Flash drives was the cost. While CDs and floppy disks might 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 also the prices continue to drop for a price unlike anything else. You can now purchase a 32GB USB Drive for less than £50. To store that much data on floppy discs, you'd need over more than 20,000 of these!

What exactly would be the next method to move data around after USB drives? Rewritable Blu-ray discs can store 25GB of information and cost around £4 each. However that, as with rewritable DVDs, these suffer incompatibility problems but for the moment, the issue is even greater as very few computers include Blu-ray drives.

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There's one solution that will eventually see a finish to all debate over the easy transfer data. The web supplies a practically unlimited quantity of storage space, in a fairly low price per GB. More importantly, as numerous devices possess a permanent Internet connection, you don't have to physically bring the information media in one spot to another.

A USB drive happens to be the quickest method to transfer data. One day the Internet 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.

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