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Old October 7th, 2009, 06:59 PM     #31 (permalink)
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I find it hard not to laugh at a thread title like "Floppy drives vs USB flash drives", since they can hardly be compared to one another seriously. Sure, some users who have and intend to keep using old computers should keep their floppies around for proper configuring, but in terms of usage, you really cant hold any older technology up to flash memory in comparison. You can see on this site the various uses and benefits of USB greatly outweigh floppy by a significant margin, aside from the few fringe benefits that floppies offer to a small and ever-shrinking base of techies. For these reasons, shouldn't we properly close this thread once and for all?

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