What are the advantages of USB memory stick/flash drive to traditional floppy disks?
A standard floppy disc can hold 1.44 MB, which is many times less storage space than a USB flash drive. A 64MB flash drive is equal in data storage of about 44 floppy disks. Apart from this clear advantage, a flash memory based memory stick is magnetization proof, unlike traditional floppies, last longer (its memory, at least the erasable portion, can be reused for about 1,000,000 times and the data stored can lat up to 10 years. Floppy disks and floppy disk drives are almost obsolete nowadays as computer manufacturers have discontinued putting floppy drives as their standard hardware component.
