Editing USB flash drive (section)

===Floppy disk===
[[File:Flash Drive v. Floppy.jpg|thumb|A flash drive and a 3.5-inch floppy disk. The flash drive can hold approximately 11,380 times more data.]]
[[Floppy disk]] drives are rarely fitted to modern computers and are obsolete for normal purposes, although internal and external drives can be fitted if required. Floppy disks may be the method of choice for transferring data to and from very old computers without USB or [[booting]] from floppy disks, and so they are sometimes used to change the firmware on, for example, [[BIOS]] chips. Devices with removable storage like older [[Yamaha Corporation|Yamaha]] music keyboards are also dependent on floppy disks, which require computers to process them. Newer devices are built with USB flash drive support.

[[Floppy disk hardware emulator]]s exist which effectively utilize the internal connections and physical attributes of a floppy disk drive to utilize a device where a USB flash drive emulates the storage space of a floppy disk in a solid state form, and can be divided into a number of individual virtual floppy [[disk image]]s using individual data channels.