At last the manufacturer finished floppy disk drive production

It has been used as a mainstream of recording media for a long timefloppy diskIt became clear that the manufacturer aborts the production of the drive.

Many PCs that do not already have a floppy disk drive are already on sale, is this also a transition of the times?

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FDD manufacturers accelerate the movements of production withdrawal - The history of quarter century: Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun

According to the Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun news report, three major manufacturers of floppy disk drives began to move to withdraw from production.

First of all, in addition to TEAC finishing production in April 2010, WACE data also entered consultations towards the end of production for its suppliers. Also, Sony's plans for production after April 2010 are undecided, but it is said that it seems to be aligned with other companies.

As the background of withdrawal, the market size of the floppy disk has shrunk to less than 1 / 30th of the peak at 2009 as the number of shipments declined at more than 20% per year, so the production minimum It is mentioned that it was judged that the standard was cut.