It is very important to know the advantages and disadvantages of floppy disks. They are not largely used anymore. As a matter of fact, floppy disks are a thing of the past. However, they were advantages of using the floppy disks at the time when it was largely used. It was portable and very inexpensive. The data held on a floppy disk was easily accessible and was randomly accessed. Data held on
. the disk was write protected. Write protection prevented the data from being easily destroyed. It was easy to transfer data from one computer to the next. Even though the floppy disk was widely used, it was not durable and the data was easily destroyed by dust and dirt or magnetic fields. For instance, if you put the disk close to anything magnetic, the data could be wiped off. When accessing data it would be very slow. It would take a while to retrieve the information stored on the disk. Also, the storage capacity was limited to only 1.44 MB.
