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What are the disadvantages of using a floppy disk as a medium of storage?
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The biggest disadvantage is that it has very little storage capacity.
The maximum storage capacity of a (last generation) floppy disk is around 240 megabytes. A USB stick, CD, or DVD-ROM can all hold much more than this.
Secondly, fewer and fewer computer termnials are being manufactured with floppy disk drives, since they have been replaced by other storage methods. This means it is hard to get your data off the disk.
Thirdly, floppy disks are more easily corruptible than other methods of data storage.
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