Not only that, but it's hard to buy small flash drives. The smallest I can find in retail stores around me are in the 16-32GB range, which feels like a total waste when all I need is a few hundred MB (i.e. just beyond the email attachment limit).
Smaller flash drives are available online, in bulk, of course, but they're not much cheaper. I guess the cost of flash becomes a negligible part of the total price at the single-digit GB range these days.
Re:The Rise and Fall of 3M's Floppy Disk
by rightbyte on Thursday April 04, 2024 @01:39PM
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At some point small memory sticks were used for like ads and brochures at conferances. They were quite neat and I guess they were bought in bulk.
But I can't seem to find any big packs of cheap small sticks either...
The only thing is writing to a CD/DVD can be a PITA. To me diskettes were very easy when it came to read and write to physical media.
>Sure, I can attempt to lend another person a thumb drive, but that's a much more complicated thing than giving them a throwaway DVD-R was
This I agree with, I have a tough time giving flash drives away for some reason. If one could buy a pack of 10 1gig flash drives for the same price as a box of Diskettes, it would be easier. Right now you can only buy flash drives 1 at a time.