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