Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 3rd Apr 2009 16:16 UTC, submitted by google_ninja
Remember, back in the day, before USB drives became common place, you had to use those weird square disks? We called them floppies, and they had about as much storage capacity as my current computer has in its power switch alone. One of the problems with floppy drives was that it was impossible to determine whether there was a floppy in the drive without actually spinning up the drive. Windows 95 almost had a feature that could detect whether or not there was a floppy in the drive without spinning it up.
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2006-10-08
I think you misunderstood my comment. This is completely possible, because English is not my native language. So I may express a bit more clear:
I didn't compare the MD to flash drives, I did compare it to CDs and DVDs (and the successor of DVDs, BluRay and HD-DVD), which are still the same size - see the history 8" -> 5,25" -> 3,5" -> 5,25".
Flash drives are a completely different category. As you mentioned correctly, they are completely fine, but movies and music aren't published on flash drives. :-) I said that I would have welcomed a development where DVDs and the successors would be 3,5" form factor again, with smaller drives, instead of 5,25" form factor with a drive the size of a full-featured computer.
In opposite to CDs and DVDs, flash drives have the downside that there's no common or standardized file format for them at the moment.
But I agree, they seem to be today's floppies.