| The floppy disk as we all know it has been around | | | | cost-effective way of rolling out system updates |
| on the market since approximately 1969, and | | | | or cross-platform data transfer. Actually, many of |
| even though we only seem to have a blur picture | | | | the largest duplication companies in the industry |
| of what it is, it was actually the first truly | | | | today began in the disk duplication area a long |
| successful removable storage device and | | | | time ago, long before optical media and CDs were |
| completely revolutionised computer disk storage. | | | | invented. With the fall in popularity of the floppy |
| Those disk invented by IBM were made of a disk | | | | disk, and the cost of maintaining old disk |
| of thin and flexible magnetic storage medium | | | | duplication systems, many companies no longer |
| encased in a plastic shell and read or even written | | | | bother to offer floppy disk duplication, and prefer |
| by a floppy disk drive. The format of those disks | | | | to leave this market to smaller specialist |
| evolved over the years. | | | | companies. |
| The original formats only stored around 140kb, | | | | The best CD and DVD duplication companies as |
| and their cost made disk duplication a tough job | | | | well as the Floppy Disk companies keep |
| only manageable for large companies. | | | | well-maintained duplication towers, and follow a |
| Later, the introduction of cheaper systems and | | | | systematic copy-verify procedure, which means |
| high-density disks meant that disk duplication | | | | that each disk, CD or DVD is checked byte by |
| became much easier as well as cheaper and finally | | | | byte. When dealing with often sensitive |
| possible for smaller companies and individual users | | | | information, the reliability of the disk duplication is |
| like us. Obviously, disk duplication played its part in | | | | of main importance. When looking for a company |
| establishing the duplication industry as it is today, | | | | to carry out your disk duplication, CD duplication |
| and making file and software distribution more | | | | or DVD duplication, ensure that they follow a |
| affordable and viable for smaller companies and | | | | similar system. |
| private consumers. Imagine that we would not be | | | | But today, CD and DVD duplication is a lot more |
| able to burn CDs or DVDs so easily if there had | | | | easy and affordable than was floppy disk |
| not been any disk duplication with floppy disks! | | | | duplication in the past. But what will be the next |
| Modern disk duplication like CD duplication or even | | | | storage device to overtake CDs and DVDs? |
| DVD duplication is still widely sought after as a | | | | |