floppy or USB thumbdrive?

[Mjmitch2]

Just out of curiosity, are all of you who are building new machines or have built one recently, putting a floppy drive in them???

I haven't used a floppy in a few years since USB thumbdrives came out and have not put one in any machine I have built for myself or others over the past few years.

 

[aetherh4cker]

I'm planning on building a computer within a month or two, and I'm not planning on putting a floppy drive in it.

The one I have now hasn't been used in over a year. I think it broke on me at some point between then and now.

 

[talldude123]

I only have a floppy drive because my friend gave me a nice DELL USB one for free. It retails on their website for like $60.

But a USB drive is good, they're really cheap now, and almost every working computer has USB ports.

 

[flyboychuckles]

I use both. Floppy drives are cheap, and you never know when you'll need one. When I was in college the computers in the labs didn't have USB so I needed to transport electronic copies of my papers on good old floppy. Plus some BIOS updates are done via floppy.

 

[Jorsoft]

I use usb thumb drives on a daily basis but I still keep a floppy in my new computers. I keep them for bios updates, sata/raid drivers, stuff like that. Plus you never know when some one will have a file only on a floppy or if you want to load a realy of game or something of a disk. They only like $6 anyhow, may as well have them I say.

 

[talldude123]

The last time I used a floppy was 3-years ago because I couldn't trust the school's network, and USB drives were really expensive.

 

[bobojuice]

I havent used a floppy in AGES, aside from at work. I never put them in my systems but i have some spare just incase i need one.

 

[apdrummer]

I agree with jorsoft. You can use them for drivers and bios updates easily and they're really cheap. How else are you going to use the external 3.5" drive space?

 

[Michowski]

whats a floppy? (Being sarcastic of course)

 

[bobojuice]

Methinks it's one of those round black things with the grooves that plays music.