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Last week my 12 years old daughter who spends far too much time on computers inquired about "What's a floppy disk?" It seemed quite shocking to me that someone who spends a lot time on the computer has never heard of a floppy disk.

I recall during my friends' astonishment inside my laptop lacking a floppy drive just 6 years ago.

The small amount of 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 system to becoming an obscurity.

It just proves how quickly hardware changes in computing.

Even then 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 back, a much more reliable, although more expensive, 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 to the new drive as simply any folder on the pc also it wouldn't take much longer to get it done either. The typical memory size wasn't bigger than a CD around 1GB but tend to be purchased with up to 8GB.

The only downside of USB Flash drives was the price. While CDs and floppy disks might be bought for pennies, USB drives cost pounds, and a lot of them. As we've come to expect with technology, over time, increasingly more might be squeezed onto these portable devices and also the prices still drop for a price unlike anything else. You can now purchase a 32GB USB Drive for less than £50. To keep much data on floppy discs, you'd need over more than 20,000 of these!

What exactly will 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, just like rewritable DVDs, these suffer incompatibility problems but for the time being, the issue is increased as not many computers include Blu-ray drives.

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There's one solution which will eventually see a finish to all debate over the best way to transfer data. The Internet provides a practically unlimited quantity of space for storage, at a fairly low price per GB. More importantly, as many devices possess a permanent Internet connection, there is no need to physically bring the information media from one spot to another.

A USB drive happens to be the quickest way to transfer data. One day the Internet will be a perfect solution to all data problems. For the time being though it is held back by relatively slow data rates in comparison to the likes of USB drives.

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