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The smallest USB key has far greater capacity than a 1.44MB 3.5-inch disk, fits in a pocket, and works almost exactly like a disk drive. The only hitch is that a USB key cant boot a PC—yet.

On paper the 3.5" Vertex 2 has the exact same specs as the 2.5" model. At this time OCZ is offering the drive in 90, 120, 180, 240, 360 and a massive 480GB.

If you have some old floppy disks lying around, then you may want to check out this fun DIY USB drive which was made using an old 3.5 inch floppy. This fun USB drive was made by Charles Mangin ...

I saw just over 1GBps out of SSDs in the NVMe slots, 570MBps out of SATA SSDs in the 3.5-inch bays, 290MBps from a single 3.5-inch, 24GB WD DC HC580 hard drive, and 580MBps from two of the latter ...

Finally, the new package includes a 2-inch ATA extension cable for use in situations where you can’t connect the Adapter directly to the back of a 3.5-inch or 5.25-inch IDE/ATA drive.

Commemorating Buffalo's 50 years in the business, the new 4TB drive follows on from the firm's original 4.3GB Skeleton 3.5-inch IDE hard drive from 1998 (on the left in the image below).

Other less common formats of 3.5-inch floppy drives were the Imation Superdisk (LS-120 and LS-240) which reached capacities of 120 and 240 MB, respectively, as well as the rare Sony HiFD released ...

The Orico 2.5-inch USB SATA External Hard Drive Enclosure is a small plastic drive box with a USB 3.0 connection. The enclosure is a clever recreation of a vintage 1970's cassette tape, and comes ...