The maximum storage of a floppy is two megabytes, which is 4,000 times less than the eight gigabytes customers can buy on a USB stick. It has been a long drawn out death for the home office friend.

The floppy disk, which has been ... The most recent floppy disks have a maximum storage capacity of 2 megabytes though most had less. ... 2,000 or 4,000 times the size of the largest floppy.

First developed as FAT (File Allocation Table) in 1977 for floppy disks, it was eventually extended to FAT12, ... even though FAT32 can technically support a max size of 16TB.

The original 8-inch floppy disks had a storage capacity of about 80 kilobytes. However, as the technology progressed, they eventually managed to store up to 1.2 megabytes by the end of their reign.

Generally in the size of 8-inch, 5.25-inch and 3.5-inch floppy disks have been used for storing files ranging between 80kb to 200Mb. The 3.5-inch HiFD was launched in 1998-99 and can store files ...