Why are floppy disks much less popular as a portable storage system and what replaced them?

Answer 1

They have been significantly succeded by smaller, more rigid forms of data storage media with greater protection and storage capacity.

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Answer 2

Technology and Reliability to sum it up.

Floppy disks do not reliably sustain its data for a long period of time and by today's standards just as with zip disks the amount of data they can hold is a small amount.

Answer 3

Floppy discs were expensive and had very little sapce to store anything on them. You could not even put one music file, because it would be too big a file size. Then, they made the compact disc ( CD ) which holds up to 80 MB worth of memory ( about 20 songs ). They are cheaper. Now we have flash drives

Answer 4

Most new computers do not have floppy drives.

3 1\2 inch floppies only hold about 1.44 Megabytes of data, while flash drives hold several thousand times more than that. Also, flash drives have higher reading and writing speeds.

Answer 5

cd-rom..portable flash drives..memory cards..most new computers do not have floppy disk drives..mine does not

Answer 6

Because no standardized and backwards-compatible replacement became available for 1.44 MB disks, which is not enough to hold many files today.

Answer 7

who wants a floppy disk