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Nibble: Floppy Drives Market Softens..................................
Does anyone still use floppy drives?

Nearly all the data I exchange with my colleagues goes via email, and I can still remember getting a nasty virus from accidentally leaving a floppy in my PC years ago.

Yes, I was using anti virus software at the time, but it did take a couple of hours to get rid of it. Friends I know say that their kids are very good at stuffing food into PC orifices such as floppy slots and DVD drawers. So maybe it's time for the industry to create a new type of non invasive portable storage connection for the generation of the future. Or is that called web storage?

Today's interchangeable portable storage devices tend to be Flash Memory sticks and cards connected via USB. Unlike the standard 3.5" floppy, which was designed to fit into an HP engineer's shirt pocket (that was before Dilbert was invented - but you get the idea) today's solid state storage devices will fit in your camera or a key ring, and typically contain 100 times as much storage as a standard floppy.

You may find it difficult to believe that in the late 1970s and early 1980s, in Apple IIs and the original IBM PC, the operating system would fit onto one floppy, while the software application such as the word processor, would fit ontp another. On a single floppy drive PC you would have to plug floppies in and out each time you changed application. As drives got cheaper the market started to produce PCs with two floppy drives. But the high volumes of the PC market eventually enabled hard drive manufacturers to achieve cost of scale economies which drove down the cost and made them affordable by consumers.
some past makers of floppy drives
Accurite Technologies

ALPS Electric Europa

Audavi

Altec ComputerSysteme

Imation

I/OMagic

MicroSolutions

Mitsubishi Kagaku Media

Mitsumi

Samsung Electronics

Sony

StorCard

Teac

Toshiba

Winstation Systems
ssd specs article Can You Trust Flash SSD Specs & Benchmarks?
Sadly no! - Many published benchmarks for flash SSD are about as reliable as bank valuations of Collateralized Loan Obligations (just before the onset of the Credit Crunch).
There are many intrinsic technical reasons why you can't believe most published benchmarks for flash SSDs (whether done by magazines or vendors) and why even the tests you carefully do yourself don't give reliable results which correlate with how the SSD will perform in real-life applications.

We warned you of it this problem here on StorageSearch.com last year - and now other publications and vendors are starting to take it seriously too. ...read the article

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