While I was waiting at the grocery store this evening, I was walking around and went past their “office supply” isle… To my surprise they had a box of 10 1.44mb floppy disks. The cost was $4.99 for roughly 14MB of disk space. (I bought a 1GB flash drive not long ago at K-Mart for $9.99)… Interestingly right next to the floppy disks there were a 10 pack of 700 MB cd-r’s. They were $7.99….So a little bit of math:
| Disk | Size | Cost for 1 disk | Cost per Meg |
| Floppy | 1.44MB | $0.49 | ~$0.35 |
| CD-R | 700MB | $0.79 | $0.001 |
| 4GB Flash Drive* | 4000MB | $34.99 | $0.008 |
| 300GB HD* | 300,000MB | $79.99 | $0.0003 |
As you can see the Floppy disk is still the most expensive medium around. What is funny is I haven’t seen a home computer/laptop in years that actually come with a floppy disk any more.
*- Represents prices of said drive from a local office store sale price for this week.