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They were also vastly more error prone. Maybe my experience isn't representative, but floppy drives were always janky, and floppy discs failed all the time, whi
by delecti 4y ago
They were also vastly more error prone. Maybe my experience isn't representative, but floppy drives were always janky, and floppy discs failed all the time, while I can't remember a USB drive ever dying. I lost lots of files on floppies.
- vel0city 4y agoI've had lots of USB flash drives fail but usually in a context where they experienced a high number of writes which makes some sense. Most flash drives which seemingly randomly failed were of the cheap tradeshow variety.
- rocqua 4y agoSo many floppies were damaged by magnets that almost all people still remember "magnets and floppies do not mix". That was a hard-learned lesson for many people.