How Does Floppy Drive.

How Does Floppy Drive.

With so many hard drives extremely fast and supergrandes, magneto-optical drives, CD-ROM and all
latest wonders of the new technology, it is hard to get excited when it sees a floppy disk.
It is slow and can not hold much, compared to other types of units. Despite all the shortcomings that
presents the floppy disk drive is an achievement underestimated. A book full of information can be contained in
a floppy disk that fits in the folder or even in your pocket. These units are everywhere, which makes them a means
safe and practical to pass data from one PC to another. There is no need for communication lines, networks or connections
infrared, just take out the floppy disk with the recorded data from one machine and put it in another.

With your computer NeXT, Steve Jobs tried to end definitively with the floppy disk drive and promote unity
magneto-optics as the ideal method to distribute commercial programs. The idea had a touch of idealism
technology, but has not reached its intent. Because of its wide acceptance, the floppy disk is trusted and respected.
Will be still with us for a long time. While floppy disk drives smaller, faster and with greater capacity
are becoming standard components for all newer computers is hard to imagine them without the old drive
5 1/4 inches. She is the 78 rpm disc of the computer world. For a long time after they have been
launched smaller discs that played more music with greater fidelity, the record companies continued to produce
his old 78s because most consumers had invested a lot in this type of disc. A similar situation
is now units 5 1/4 inches. A lot is stored in them and yet are extremely necessary in
exchange of information between users who do not have newer models.

When the unit 5 1/4 inches is supplanted, her replacement will not be the magneto-optical drive that Steve Jobs dreamed,
but some variation unit 3 1/2 inches. With capacities ranging now take 700 kilobytes to megabytes 2.88,
smaller disks store more data than their larger relatives. The resistant casing lets you handle them with more
ease. Are extremely cheaper than similar models of removable hard drive - so cheap that its price
is not an important factor. And since it took a standard for laptops.

Pointing in another direction, there may arise a kind of cheap and portable storage that uses fast memory chips
(Flash memory chips), with size no larger than a credit card. In the coming years, surely some kind of
floppy disk will become standard on all PCs.

Source: Evolution of Computers