Need opinions: Flash Drive Vs. Diskettes.
I can't backup on CD's because I have to erase the entire CD-RW to rewrite on it. That means when to backup a few files: I have to put an entire CD contents on my desktop, replace the new files, erase the CD, store the desktop files back to the CD, trash the desktop files.
I needed a system where I can just "drag and drop" a new file to the backup device and it will copy over one file at a time. So I've been using flash drives because it's just too clumsy using the external diskette drive. And it works nicely EXCEPT:
Filing those little flashdrive bugs is just way harder than marking and filing the flat diskettes.
I STILL think Apple should have continued putting diskette drives in Mac for a few years more. You?
j.
Hi, j.
it was easier to label and file those nice flat little square diskettes than these tiny plastic spaceships. Am I right?
Yes.
But newer media takes up so much less space... even a single Zip100 = 70 floppies; that's a half-drawer of floppies on one disk. A handful of Zip250 disks can replace an entire cabinet of floppies.
We don't get something for nothing. Today's files, with the current capabilities of color depth, text styling, embedded graphics and (if needed) fonts, plus the machines' capabilities of handling large files with ease, have routinely become so large that often a floppy is not large enough to hold more than a single file, if that.
And, with the advent of affordable software to create audio and video compositions as well as complex graphics files, file storage needs have mushroomed well past the limitations of floppies.
It would not surprise me if CD and DVD file storage has surpassed the use of other media. DVD-RAM disks in particular can be useful in that they behave like a large floppy - individual files can be copied to them or removed from them.
I like firewire hard drives - easy, simple, highly transportable, and safe for the data.
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