End of Removable Storage Media?

About all removable storage media disappear or are in end of life:

Floppy disks: Introduced in 1967 by IBM, they were popular for around 40 years in 8-, 5.25- and 3.5-inch diameters, and are now used only for old computers. There were as much as 58 FDD manufacturers in 1992 with 31 million drives shipped. But you can continue to find them under FujiFilm, Imation, Maxell, Memorex, Nashuatec or Verbatim brand names.

Optical discs: CD-ROMs were co-developed by Philips and Sony and released in 1982. Once more, they invade the market with, for example, 11 million drives installed WW in 1993. Then they were offered as write-once and then erasable formats. DVDs arrive in 1996 with same kind of functionalities. They were replaced especially by USB keys but continue to be pressed for distribution of movies. Among optical disc makers, remaining are notably CMC Magnetics, Falcon Technologies International, Moser Baer, Ritek, CMC Magnetics, Taiyo Yuden, Prodisc and TDK.

Removable HDDs: All the companies in this field disappear like SyQuest, Nomaï, Iomega, etc., or stopped this business like Imation.

Half-inch reel-to-reel tapes: Initiator was Univac in 1951 and then IBM and compatible manufacturers. Tape cartridges finally kill them.

Tape cartridges: There was a lot of different formats: IBM 3480/3590, helical scan DAT and 8mm, QIC, DLT, the last ones being LTO and proprietary IBM 3592 only used in big libraries with several petabytes. For lower capacities, it’s more economical now to backup on high-capacity HDDs or/and clouds.

Flash cards: We could also include another removable media, not based on magnetic but on solid-state technology, successful flash cards since 1994 with several different sizes, designed for specific applications (cameras, smartphones, etc.).