Advantages: Fast USB 2.0 connection, accessories, Compact, Looks COOL
Disadvantages: Requires a driver for Win98, Need updated USB 2.0 driver to use advanced features or your computer crashes, not all computers have USB

...You're copying a bunch of documents from your computer onto a 3.5" floppy disk. All is well, you see the sheets of paper flying across and the progress bar moving along nicely but then suddenly *BEEP*. A small window pops up saying your disk is full! A standard floppy diskette these days can only store 1.44MegaBytes (or 1,044KiloBytes) of data. Sometimes, it's not even enough for a single document these days, especially if there are pictures inside. Now imagine a disk that gives you 128MB of data. That's the same as 88.89 floppy diskettes! Yes, you've guess it (if you bothered guessing that is). The product I'm reviewing is a flash disk. Also known as pen drives, USB drives, flash drives, memory sticks, travelling disks, jump drives, etc. These are basically disks that plug into your computer via USB and act like a drive. Kind... Read review

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Advantages: Quick, Easy, Reliable, Small, Fits into any pocket or bag
Disadvantages: Faded out use lately

...I originally bought this external floppy drive a few years ago after the standard for laptops was not to have an inbuilt floppy drive already in them however at the time floppy disks were still in use from time to time. It doesn't mean that this can't be used for desktop computers that don't have internal floppy drives. Power ********* Usually when having an external device like an external hard drive or optical drive you would usually need more than one lead. It would usually be a cable for the power into a power socket in the wall and a separate cable to send and receive data between the device and the computer however with this external floppy drive it has completely changed. Now all that is need with this floppy drive is simply just one USB cable with a mini USB connected to the drive making it quick and easy to use when your... Read review

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Advantages: Fast USB 2.0 connection, accessories, Compact, Looks COOL
Disadvantages: Requires a driver for Win98, Need updated USB 2.0 driver to use advanced features or your computer crashes, not all computers have USB, gets hot.

...This is a review on the PQI's USB 2.0 1GB 'Cool Drive' Travelling Disk. This product is very similar to my PQI 128MB Cool Drive Traveling Disk, which I've also reviewed, but with one BIG difference. The 1GB version of this drive holds A LOT more information than the 128MB could ever. Now what does 1GB mean? It's short for 1 GigaByte, which is 1,000 MegaBytes. Actually, the space shows up as 999MB but that's close enough. Now, if you've read my 128MB Cool Drive review, or at least seen the title, you'll know that 128MB stores roughly the equivalent of 88 floppy disks. Now the 1GB Cool Drive stores the equivalent of 694 floppy disks! Impressive, in'it? Now, the 1GB Cool Drive is practically identical to the 128MB Cool Drive. The drive is roughly the size of my thumb, it's metallic blue in colour with clear bits at the bottom and tip... Read review

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Advantages: Compact
Disadvantages: Small 1.44MB storage space

.... DONT USE MOBILE PHONES NEAR FLOPPY DISKS Floppy disks are very expensive with some costing up to 50p or more each. At Uni they cost £1 for ONE. Lets use 20p as an example price per disk and say the standard hard drive is 80GB (which it roughly is now) it would cost £11959.12 to buy 80GB in floppy disks, when you can get an 80GB hard drive for about £40. Consider other alternatives for example, and which will save money in the long run ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 700MB CD-R's. Costs about £10 per pack of 100. 10p per disk. Costs £11.70 for 80GB, but each disk can only be written on once. 700MB CD-RW's. Costs about £10 per pack of 25. 40p per disk. Costs £46.81 for 80GB, but each disk can be written on again and again. 256MB USB Flash Disk. The prices range from £12... Read review

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Advantages: Small and compact
Disadvantages: Breakable and horrible colour

...Hiya sorry about the boredom about these floppy disks first the imation 3 1/2" floppu disks and now its those pesky 3M's. Right i am sorry to say that my other batch of imation floppy disks have run out. So i phoned my supplier and i was informed by the lovely lady called charlie that they had run out. So she did suggest i try the new 3M pack of 10 floppies. Right onto the product in hand: These are the worst floppy disks i have ever purchased, the colour black is the worst ever but i must agree that floppies are the same as any other floppies. These floppy disks are not pre-formatted so you would need to format them yourself which is really time consuming, especially if you have a really important report due in the next day for the bank as i did. These floppies are not as good as the Imation series as all of these disks... Read review

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Advantages: Small, easy to use, re-writable, reliable, extra caps, neck strap
Disadvantages: Might be too small, needs an extention cord for a desktop computer, still relatively expensive

...Have you ever needed to copy information from one computer to another when you didn't have a CD burner and the documents were too large for a floppy disk? One solution is to buy a CD or DVD burner drive. But those burners sometimes make errors, which you'll often discover only when its too late. Moreover, unless you're burning on a re-writeable disk, if you make a mistake you've wasted both the CD and the time it took to burn it. Plus, those CDs aren't quite as durable as we were led to believe. A scratch in the wrong place and your files will be unreadable. Finally, you don't always need 700mb (or more) of storage every time you want to take a bunch of files from one computer to another – so again, burning a couple of files onto a CD seems wasteful. But now there's a new solution - USB storage. My boss bought two different kinds... Read review

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Advantages: Colourful
Disadvantages: Break too easily

...to be it as they are all the things i have just wrote about above. If you buy these floppy disks they are availible from Argos priced at £5.99 for a 10 Pack and £11.99 for a 30 Pack. Now thats what i call VALUE. I would highly recommend these to anyone who is looking for a Temporary back-up device until they can afford something more along the lines of a USB Hard Disk.... Read review

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Advantages: Cheap, Convenient and Reliable
Disadvantages: Memory Card Sticks Out - Some Little Annoyances

...The “Sandisk MobileMate 4-in-1” provides an alternative way of storing data than the typical flash USB drive/external hard drive plus makes the most out of one’s memory stick/pro/pro duo. Being a student I needed something to transport work to and from school and, with the technological advances and the amount of work I had to produce it would have been absurd (and frankly taboo in school life) to walk in with a floppy disk! Using CDs would be impractical and limiting to the school facilities thus I needed something fast, convenient, reliable and cheap (being a student and all)! Cue in the “Sandisk MobileMate 4-in-1” In terms of convenience it was perfect for me considering the fact that I had a Sony 2GB memory stick pro duo from owning a Playstation Portable (PSP). Moreover combining Sony’s record of reliability (from my... Read review

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Advantages: small and lightweight, easy to use
Disadvantages: the keyring feature isn't strong

...I have just recently completed and successfully handed in my dissertation for my hospitality degree and relied heavily on this device. It is an amazing product and would reccomend this to everyone. I was in the process of completing an assignment for one of my many modules by using a floppy disk to save all my work on. As the floppy doesn't hold much information i was constantly opening up different folders on different disks and cutting and pasting the information that i needed onto my uni's hard drive. However, whilst i was constantly opening new documents on different disks, the disk drive made a noise and i lost all my work as the disk that was in the drive wasn't the one with my final work on and all the work that i had done that day deleted. I couldn't risk this happenning whilst i was completing my dissertation so i decided... Read review

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Advantages: storage - 4GB -
Disadvantages: awkward shape when in pocket

...**SanDisk Cruzer Micro USB Flash Drive -- 4GB** -- USB Flash Drive 4GB -- U3 Technology enabled (software installer supplied) Follow on-screen instructions for installation *Summary* SanDisk, is known for having the world's highest volumn as in (sales) for data storage. -- No other data storage business has the retail portfolio that SanDisk has. They are based in California and boasts to be the first company to announce the introduction of the USB Flash Drive. They provide storage and multimedia solutions for the home and small business environments. ScanDisk in 2005, went public in the US. In 2006, their revenue was 3.3 Billion US Dollars. Thei