History of removable disk drive

Many people already been using pendrive or thumbdrive or flash disk. However how many people would remember the trustworthy 3.5" floppy disk. During my days all these NAND memory isn't available at the market with an affordable price tag. Now with these flash disk flooded the market and floppy disk become legacy. Beside is an image of the legacy floppy disk and below is floppy disk drive/reader.


People are changing rapidly which make the technology to leap forward for accommodating human needs. Floppy disk capacity (1.44MB) is just merely a fly compare with current flash disk today. Many video, audio and images created today exceed 1.44MB which make the floppy disk impractical to use. Imagine carrying a bag fill with 500 pieces of floppy disk to work and slowly download the file from every single floppy disk before you able to see the big picture. It is more easy to carry a single small flash disk and it is cheaper compare buying 500 pieces of floppy disk. Furthermore, the capacity of 4GB flash disk in Malaysia cost around USD 40 and 4GB is around 2700 floppy disks. What about the picture below:

There are minority group of people in Malaysia resist to change and still insist to use floppy disk. That is why my HR payroll manager has to carry floppy disk to bank for them to download information in order to process the employees payroll. When you buy desktop computers today do not come with floppy disk drive. It is a like a premium item and has to be added from the optional items menu. Even notebooks do not come with floppy disk already. Luckily there is some manufacturer being considerable to allow this optional item to connect as one of the USB devices. Which greatly allow mobility and sharing devices among users. Like the picture below:

Maybe soon we will need to create a small society which still using floppy disk drive in order to prevent a total annihilation. As we united, we become stonger. Anyway it is just a joke. Please post your comment regarding this issue.

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