Da Floppy Disk Drive has been an extinct species  

well nothing stays forever, and with the massive developement on technology i will not wonder if within 2 ot 3 more years and cd will be out of the market too. as for the floopy drive it should have gone long way before, besides the fact that is not reliable in Data Storage, it is so inconvenient becuase it can only hold very little amount of data. :)

Yeh i agree with you floppy is going to be history soon, i removed my floppy drive 3 yrs back.

it's true that floppy disk is hardly used nowadays, but its importance and the part played by it since the inception of computers cannot be overlooked. it has played its part and now CD and external drives have come to forefront. i think external drives are far more easy to use than the CD. it requires a burning process in a CD, whereas in external drives we can COPY and PASTE or SEND and storage capacity is also huge, more than that of CDs.

i think CD will soon lose its utility for am definte these external removal drives will completely rule the show.

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floppy is extint but it is a very useful device..... it is very often used by crackers to break into the sam based operating systems.. so its good for me.... new technologies take place of the older ones but even now floppy drive is found in almost every pc so i think its a tradition of having a floppy drive in your system

The floppy drive is far from extinct and despite the fact that most computers are now sold without the drives they are still fairly popular.
I use a floppy disk regular to archive my financial data stored on an Excel spreadsheet. If my floppy drive developed a problem then I would replace it, and I even have a spare drive at home.
I have a DVD rewriter and a CD rewriter, but I see very little point in using a CD to store a couple of spreadsheets or documents.

Well quite frankly, it should already be at its end of life term. Nowadays, flash drives are a better option, besides being more portable (size), they hold a lot more data than floppies. CDs on the other hand will be at its end of life term too soon enough. As you can see, DVD already replaced it as the medium for home movies, heck even DVDs now come in two pieces for home movies. It just means that data nowadays are larger compared before.

I hate floppies like anything. I am glad it's no more in my PC. I removed it a few years back. In one of seminars, I had taken some slides in floppy diskettes and it failed to open up! Corrupt files and can't copy and stuffs. I got really frustrated. From that day on, I use a thumb drive which is more reliable and faster with more memory. Many people prefer to buy a DVD writer instead of CDRW these days as there is not much of a price difference..CDs will be gone in few years time...

CDs are being replaced by DVDs now because of the capacity of data that can be burned or written on DVD-r or DVD-rw.

I think that floppy disk drives are used less now then in previous years due to the invention of cds, dvds as well as the flash drives. A floppy disk drive is now an option in a new computer. Floppy disks hold very little information that it is not as useful as it used to be in the past. Eventually I think it will be a thing of the past.

Yes I believe the CD / DVD will go away one day. and the drive or external storage medium we will be using will be the thumb sticks that you can now buy. just carry them around and you can plug them into most any computer with a USB port. now floppys are still used as not everybody has upgraded there computer yet and they dont have USB or a DVD in the computer. but for the most part they are gone