The end of 3.5-Inch Floppy Disks
Although for many using computers today the “Floppy Disk” will seem to be an alien word. The plain fact is the floppy was the pioneer for modern data storage.
Floppy disks and floppy drives came onto the scene from Japan in 1983. Evolving technology and storage options including cloud computing and high-capacity USB drives, not to mention computers that no longer include the disk drives, have made the floppy disks less useful in recent years.
With modern PC’s and laptops have large hard drives and the fact you can now easily transfer data using the internet, there is a tendency to forget to do a backup of your data.
The acid test is to imagine if your PC was taken away today. Would you manage without it?
Do you have a backup of:
- Family pictures and videos you could not bare to lose.
- Important financial information.
- Passwords and user names for accounts online and offline.
- Important work or business related files; contacts, customer information, accounts.
- Data from programs like Microsoft Outlook, Outlook Express.
- Data in other software you use regularly
We can’t tell you the number of times we have been out to clients and because of hard drive failure the client has lost all their data. In some cases critical data. The look on the customers face is of pure anguish.
Let the image of the floppy disk above serve as a reminder of the importance of backing up your data. And if you have any data on any old floppy’s that you you want to keep make sure you transfer it to another backup storage medium.
Shush Arya
Author The Computer Man Blog
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