Topping our list of the 10 top items that clutter up the home office, are floppies.
How many of these do you have sitting around your home office, junk drawer or college memorabilia box? If you're not using them, why not make a commitment to 'lose 'em?
A floppy disk is a storage device made of thin, flexible plastic. Also known as "floppies," they are read and written by a floppy disk drive. Well intentioned storage devices for your computer, their usefulness has now officially ended, mostly because they hold so little data. They measure 3.5 inches square, yet only hold 1.44 Megs of data. One single song on average is about 3 Megs. Did you know that?
Devices such as USB are easier to carry around, faster, and more spacious than floppies. Belkin makes a great 7-in-1 Retractable Cable Travel Pack we wrote about in a recent online article for Instinct Magazine (click here to check that article out.) Just make sure you attempt to recycle the disks, to help in the fight against e-waste. Earth 911 has information on recycling centers in your area (click here to find out more information.)
So why not transfer those old files now? Ditch the floppies for something better, stronger, faster.
