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Re:The Rise and Fall of 3M's Floppy Disk by kijin on Wednesday April 03, 2024 @11:03AM (#39918420)
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.

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Re:The Rise and Fall of 3M's Floppy Disk by rightbyte on Thursday April 04, 2024 @01:39PM (#39933566)
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...

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