Conditions With Flash Disks and Diskettes in this Digital Age

For teachers, office workers and employees who are close to administrative work, correspondence and document files, flash disks and diskettes of the past are familiar with their names. What now. In a modern office where work can be taken home and all matters can be checked via digital tools, laptops, internet, links are available to make it easier to view documents without having to be in the office, do you still need these items?

Of course, there are still many who use flash disks for now, but I doubt whether anyone still uses floppy disks. Most teachers, employees, office people will store data that does not have a large memory on diskettes. The point is to take it to another place that is more practical than bringing a bothersome CPU or laptop. Flash disks and diskettes are susceptible to viruses, so when they attack flash disks and diskettes, they must be scanned first, cleaned the memory so that the virus does not damage and shuffle the data.

The larger the floppy disk, the longer the diskette is left behind, replaced by a smaller device, namely a flash disk. The day the memory storage is getting higher but the shape is getting smaller. Since the emergence of the Covid-19 virus, the use of flash disks has decreased. When the office started implementing WFH (Work From Home) and rarely worked in the office (WFO: Work From Office) flash disk technology was decreasing. In the past, installing a flash disk was a little bit when there was training with copying materials, since the pandemic, technological acceleration has allowed all data to be stored on Google Drive, which can store as much data as possible. The data allows anyone with an interest to open it if a link is opened so that each administrative job can be stored in a different folder. The folder can be given a name and can be checked at any time and is easily searchable by clicking search.

Modern offices, teachers, schools are starting to implement file storage via link tree, Google side, Moodle, Google forms. For office, they can pay some money for links like google, link tree to store big data for all employees. All confidential data and important data are stored, there are personal data that can only be accessed by certain people, of course from the admin section, or data that can be opened by adding people via an open link where everyone, especially all the data in the email name- the name entered. Some are private, some are considered all members are editors, or owners.

Members who have registered an email can send administrative data, pictures, photos that will be stored in a special folder, so the use of flash disks is almost rarely used anymore. The sophistication of data storage has made floppy disks and flash disks disappear in the market. The use of paper is starting to be rarely used, because all correspondence, signatures and sending information have gone through electronic machines. Seminar invitations, meeting invitations do not have to be in paper letters but can be sent via email, WhatsApp, telegram. Sophisticated isn't it. Then is there no downside to storing data via the drive and link tree apart from the positive side?

Before discussing the negative side, here are the positive facts of using cloud servers on drives.

Easy Sync

One of the advantages of Google Drive is that it is easy to sync. Only by logging in to a Google account, users who own Google accounts can enjoy Google Drive facilities, such as G form, G Meet, Google Side, Jamboard, etc.

Large Memory Amount

The amount of memory in Google Drive is large enough so that it can send data with large memory, especially if you subscribe and become a premium member you can store data of more than 15 Giga Bite to how many tera, depending on the premium price and office or personal needs.

Can save files with many formats

The advantage of storage on Google Drive is that it can save files in many formats, both documents, photos, videos, sounds and even coding files. Of course, thanks to file storage in many formats, it allows a lot of data to be stored in one device.

Website Hosting

Another advantage can be used as Website hosting. Types of cloud computing in the world are usually subject to tariffs, but on google drive we can use it for free. This can help developers to host the coding results, isn't it amazing.

Easy File Sharing

Another plus side is that it makes sharing files easy.

By sending a link we can invite selected people or only certain people can view and edit our files.

Can Backup Data

In addition to sharing the Google Drive link, you can also back up data. Data from smartphones can be stored on Google Drive without having to be stored in the smartphone's internal memory which makes it heavy.

If you store data on a flash disk or diskette, security is not guaranteed, because if you get a virus, the data may be deleted or formatted, if you get a virus, the data will be damaged and unreadable. It is very profitable to store data on Google Drive because its security is quite guaranteed.

Disadvantages of Google Drive

Dependence on the Internet

But in addition to the shortcomings, there are several disadvantages of storage on Google Drive, the main thing is that if you want to view data, you must have a strong internet network, apart from depending on the internet, backing up data on your PC is not optimal. For now, backing up when off line is only for photo and video files, while backing up data and similar files cannot be done.

Progress allows life to be more practical, but dependence on the internet is getting higher, if the internet network is problematic then there are many obstacles related to data storage and effective efforts to work. So for today's work the internet plays an important role in moving the work processes of companies or offices of educational institutions.

However, technology has advantages and disadvantages. I took this information from several sources. In the past, floppy disks and flash disks were very familiar, but as technology advances, various tools are increasingly marginalized, flash disks and diskettes can be stored as historical items that can be told to posterity about the process and the introduction of historically recorded technological stages. Whether tomorrow, let alone technological breakthroughs that will have an impact on today's tools that will be degraded in the future.