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It's been aroudn since teh good old days.
But is it time to chuck the little critters away and go for something that can backup larger amounts of data?
But is it time to chuck the little critters away and go for something that can backup larger amounts of data?
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Yep.. windows XP Cd can already boot from itself.
Floppies were compulsory in the good ol' days. It was pretty difficult to find a home PC without a floppy drive. And even now, every computer has a drive for 3.5 inchers.
But now, all is on CDs, and, following this, I think that pretty soon, you won't be able to buy a PC with a floppy drive. Instead, it'll have a CD-RW or DV-RW in its place.
But what about zip drives . . . hmm . . .
But now, all is on CDs, and, following this, I think that pretty soon, you won't be able to buy a PC with a floppy drive. Instead, it'll have a CD-RW or DV-RW in its place.
But what about zip drives . . . hmm . . .
GRUB floppies are an esessntial component of system recovery, I'd be screwed without them.
Floppy disks fly excellently.
My company gets all its desktops from Dell. 3 weeks ago they announced their Optiplex's are to come without floppy drives as standard.
So the biggest PC retailer in the world is about to drop the floppy.
But that aint great news for some of us. Having to rebuild 10's of PC's a day with images is not easy when you aint got a floppy disk to boot to the image server. Running ntfschk is a pain in the backside from a cd. NT4 doesn't support USB so you can kiss goodbye to pen drives. Oh I could go on.
So you'd be surprised how many people want the floppy drive to stay. And I'm one of them.
So the biggest PC retailer in the world is about to drop the floppy.
But that aint great news for some of us. Having to rebuild 10's of PC's a day with images is not easy when you aint got a floppy disk to boot to the image server. Running ntfschk is a pain in the backside from a cd. NT4 doesn't support USB so you can kiss goodbye to pen drives. Oh I could go on.
So you'd be surprised how many people want the floppy drive to stay. And I'm one of them.
For the mo.. skool pc's are old fookers.
I use them for transferring small files to less technologically able places, such as school etc.
They aint quite obsolete but i one thing is the improving quality of onboard lans, making the need for an extra network card obsolete.
If you don't use a floppy drive, then there isn't much point getting one, but if you think you will ever need one, you may as well get one since they are very cheap.
Actually, floppy drives aren't included in most laptops for weight reasons, not because they are obselete. The drives only cost about a fiver, there's a dedicated space for it inside your case and a plug on your motherboard that nothing else will use. Why on earth wouldn't you want a floppy drive?
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