Floppy to USB flash drive converter plays a very crucial role in helping industries grow well

At one point of time the floppydisk drive served as very important format for movable storage. However, with increase in number of storage options, eventually, the floppy disks started to fade out and now have become nearly obsolete. Now-a- days there are much more versatile options to replace floppy drive as a source of data transfer in IT related equipments. From last so many years various companies have been working for solutions related to data transfer. But it was only few years’ back that the floppy to USB flash drive converters were designed to replace the floppy drives. These were specially fabricated and designed keeping in view the large number of customers of various fields who were still dependent only on floppy disks.

But still there are industries like Plastic Molding industry, Robotics industry, Textiles industry, Embroidery industry, Music Industry, Wire Cutting and Diamond Cutting industry which are still largely dependent on old and vulnerable floppy drives. As upgrading these old machines is not an economical option floppy disks are still the only hope for these industries.  Another problem which haunts these industries is the unavailability of good quality floppy disks in the market. In such a scenario floppy to USB flash drive converter plays a very crucial role in helping these industries to be in business.

Various user friendly versions of floppy drive to flash drive converters are available in the market. Floppy can be easily converted into USB flash drive by using any of the following converters

·         1.44 mb floppy to USB converter, 34 pin Interface

·         720 KB   Double Density floppy disk to USB emulator, 34 pin Interface

·         1.2  mb  floppy to USB upgrade, 34 pin Interface

·         1.44 mb floppy to USB converter , 26 Ziff Interface

After choosing any of the above mentioned devices, all one needs is to follow few simple steps and one will be able to convert the contents of the floppy onto a USB flash drive.

Firstly one needs to insert the floppy disk into the floppy disk drive, then, connect the USB flash drive to an available USB port. Now, one has to select the "Start" button, followed by "Computer" (or "My Computer"). After that, double click the removable USB flash drive icon. As a result a window will open in which all the contents of the drive will be displayed. Leave this window open. Now double click the "3 1/2 Floppy A:" drive icon. A window will appear which will display the content currently saved on the floppy. Now the final step involves clicking and dragging the contents of the floppy into the USB drive's window. Once the files have finished copying and converting over, one needs to close the device windows, eject the floppy disk from the disk drive and right click the USB flash drive icon. After which one needs to select "Eject" from the pull down menu and remove the drive from the computer.   

These converters are life savior for the industries which still use floppy for data storage as they have long life spans and can handle high capacities. They are not only more efficient in data storage and data transferring but are also compatible with all kind of devices which are equipped with floppy drives.