Why is hard disk is popular than floppy disk?

Answer 1

Hard disk is more popular than floppy disk because hard disk can store huge amount of data in term of mega byte to giga byte. It stores the data safely compared to floppy disk. External hard disk are portable so they can transfer the data from one computer to another . But floppy disk has low capacity and are vey slow compared to hard disk . It can be easily damaged when exposed to heat and dust. Files can be easily corrupted and data transfer rate is slow compared to hard disk. Nowadays, computer are built without floppy drives which is needed to read floppy disks.

Answer 2

There are many advantages to using hard disks over floppy disks. Hard disks simply hold a greater amount of information, which is very important today as many files are larger than those used in the past. Hard disks are also more durable than floppy disks, floppy disks are easily destroyed by accidental bending or spills.

Answer 3

Hard Disks are ofcourse more durable compared to floppy disks

Hard disks store more data compared to floppy disks

In a way, Hard disks are "universal" while floppy disk drives can only be used on obselete machines

Hard disks load and store data more quickly compared to floppy disks

Answer 4

One more recent application for flash memory is as a replacement for hard disks. Flash memory does not have the mechanical limitations and latencies of hard drives, so a solid-state drive (SSD) is attractive when considering speed, noise, power consumption, and reliability. Flash drives are gaining traction as mobile device secondary storage devices; they are also used as substitutes for hard drives in high-performance desktop computers and some servers with RAID and SAN architectures.

There remain some aspects of flash-based SSDs that make them unattractive. The cost per gigabyte of flash memory remains significantly higher than that of hard disks.[38] Also flash memory has a finite number of P/E cycles, but this seems to be currently under control since warranties on flash-based SSDs are approaching those of current hard drives.

For relational databases or other systems that require ACID transactions, even a modest amount of Flash storage can offer vast speedups over arrays of disk drives.

In June 2006, Samsung Electronics released the first flash-memory based PCs, the Q1-SSD and Q30-SSD, both of which used 32 GB SSDs, and were at least initially available only in South Korea.

A solid-state drive was offered as an option with the first Macbook Air introduced in 2008, and from 2010 onwards, all Macbook Air laptops shipped with an SSD. Starting in late 2011, as part of Intel's Ultrabook initiative, an increasing number of ultra thin laptops are being shipped with SSDs standard.

There are also hybrid techniques such as hybrid drive and ReadyBoost that attempt to combine the advantages of both technologies, using flash as a high-speed non-volatile cache for files on the disk that are often referenced, but rarely modified, such as application and operating system executable files.

source: Wikipedia

My comment.

It seems that today's solid state drives are largely superior to conventional HDD. From now on, computers will progressively have SSD as their main storage devices.

Answer 5

Hard drives are much more reliable and less prone to physical damage. They can also store a lot more data.

Answer 6

1. Floppy disk is portable.

2. Floppy disk are inexpensive storage medium.

Answer 7

because hard disk has more capacity than floppy disk. you can use hard disk for long time but floppy disks life is short