View Full Version : Who Uses Floppy Drive?
keith
08-19-2006, 02:11 PM
Remember the times where there is a 5-1/4" Floppy drive, and then the 1.44MB 3-1/2" floppy drive takes over the market as a removable storage. These days users are comprehensive on just USB drive, with capacity more than 2GB!
When I was looking at the specs' on Al's desktop new system, I can't help asking myself, how many people nowadays still uses Floppy drive?
Do You Still Use Floppy Drive?
azn1art
08-19-2006, 02:12 PM
I still use it for Norton Ghost. XD and also as a boot disk.
I've not used one for a long time, if I need a boot disk I use a CD. I do remember when I used to copy files to floppy then kick myself when the machine I was copying to didn't have one. My latest trick is to try to boot off DVD in a CD Rom drive.
amitpatel_3001
08-19-2006, 02:22 PM
lol good poll there ;)
Are you crazy? It's the world of the USB thumb drive
Bcos i hate those really boring floppies :p
Johan
08-19-2006, 02:55 PM
Funny this should come up now. I hadn't even touched a floppy disk for 2 years or so until this week. I now use them regularly again becayse they are my 'key' to my passwords.
amitpatel_3001
08-19-2006, 03:01 PM
oops cant you do that with a USB? more life and secure ;)
azn1art
08-19-2006, 03:05 PM
oops cant you do that with a USB? more life and secure ;)
Is there a way to be able to use WIndow's Password Recovery from a USB?
kadhal
08-19-2006, 03:06 PM
what you can hold in 1.44 mb these days?
azn1art
08-19-2006, 03:13 PM
what you can hold in 1.44 mb these days?
Some school work :p
I stopped using floppys when I got my first thumb drive two years ago.
There's no comparison, they're smaller, and hold a lot more data. (and don't break when you put a magnet on them)
amitpatel_3001
08-19-2006, 04:28 PM
Is there a way to be able to use WIndow's Password Recovery from a USB?
No idea but i think yes we can
what you can hold in 1.44 mb these days?
Secret files :p
though practically nothing
Some school work :p
We can just share the schools virus :D
clvezlys
08-19-2006, 07:56 PM
Hate floppies - they easily stop working from very little physical/thermic damage or just after a few uses for unknown reasons.
Thumb drives on the other hand are small, spacey, durable, no longer expensive and just more convenient, having much more applications.
I can't stand floppys. Whever I used to use them for school work and such they never seemed to work on both my computer and the one at school. Plus they can hardly hold anything.
Unfortunetly not all systems support booting from thumbdrives right now and thankfully its slowly changing. When i can help it its thumb drive when i cant its a floppy. one of my laptops firmware upgrades i still have to do from a floppy just wont see the thumb drive or anything other than a floppy for that matter.
jacubilloro
08-20-2006, 10:54 AM
Many computers you buy from stores now don't even have floppy drives. They now come with memmory card readers...
I used to like 3.5" floppys, until I lost a whole semester work on a bad one.
methodshop
08-20-2006, 05:05 PM
i have a usb floppy drive in my office - just in case. however, it hasnt been used in at least 3-4 years
Yea i hope with in the next year floppys will be phased out compleatly but it wont happen
wangstramedeous
08-20-2006, 07:55 PM
I rarely see floppys at school anymore. And with all the computer ilitrate idiots that are popping everywhere, i doubt we'll see much of them anylonger.
Well see it depends when i was doing a lot of IT stuff and i do still ocasionaly i see them all the time a lot of workplaces will keep systems for typicaly 5 to 7 years so they will take some time to phase out. In the home and entertaintment area like you and me they will get phased out much quicker i would think
clvezlys
08-20-2006, 08:20 PM
hope they get. Time for something new. Floppies were good at their time, but it's time to face the facts. And the facts are on USB drives' side.
FourBear
08-20-2006, 08:56 PM
I used to use floppies for html files and schoolwork up to a few years ago. Some college professors still hand out required programs for business classes on floppies. I bought the external floppy drive for my laptop when I started college in Fall 03, but I never used it and gave it to my brother.
screw that the day i had to carry around floppys is the same day i bought my own 486 laptop i was like screw this :)
Than i installed doom2 ZOMG dwango days :)
Giorgi
08-21-2006, 04:05 AM
None!!! Hahaa, anyway all the PC come with it these days
azn1art
08-21-2006, 04:07 AM
all the PC come with it these days
Not All. My brother's falcon didn't come with one lol.
Giorgi
08-21-2006, 04:09 AM
Falcon? never heard about it.
oooh a falcon.... how much money did he waist
Hoomamooma
08-21-2006, 04:14 AM
I just bought a PC in March and it didn't have a floppy drive.
Giorgi
08-21-2006, 04:15 AM
Well Floppys is out of the market i guess
Giorgi
08-21-2006, 04:21 AM
at least they're gettin out
well thats a givin and obvious and allready pointed out
Giorgi
08-21-2006, 04:35 AM
I wonder how much Floppyes it will take to install F.E.A.R. ? :P
do the math and find out...
Giorgi
08-21-2006, 04:41 AM
Do math yourself I am smokin' u know :P
that will make it more entertaining to watch thats why i want u to
Giorgi
08-21-2006, 04:49 AM
how many bytes is F.E.A.R. installer anyway?
Giorgi
08-21-2006, 04:54 AM
OK, I searched for torrents, its Total Size 4.17 GB
so, some math and... Just 3207 Floppyes will make it :D
wasnt there like a company that made a dual purpose floppy drive that took normal floppies but had a nother ver of the floppy was like 10mb or some thing?
Giorgi
08-21-2006, 04:58 AM
Yeah, It was called ZIP DRIVE or somthn' cant recall
No there was another company that made what im talkin about and it was 1 slot drive took both kinds of discs
jacubilloro
08-21-2006, 05:00 AM
Actually, IIRC they where called superdrives or superfloppys. And they only had a max of 4.something MB.
For a small device intended only for regular documents 4 megs are not that bad. As long as they are not as unreliable as a normal floppy.
Giorgi
08-21-2006, 05:04 AM
Never heard about them :(
think it was arund the same time zip drives came out or just before
Giorgi
08-21-2006, 05:08 AM
anyway theyre useless even if they were 100mb, who needs them when BLUE-RAY is comming?
screw blyeray HDDVD its cheaper :)
Giorgi
08-21-2006, 05:10 AM
cheaper often (not always) means low quality, and BLU-RAY has more capacity
Not true HDDVD's are cheaper to make than blueray its been published many times over thats why the porn industry is rooting for HDDVD they would have ot invest in so much more xpensive hardware and they are liek screw that
Giorgi
08-21-2006, 05:52 AM
But Blu_ray still has more capacity
big whoop HDDVD is cheaper so that means dvd prices will stay the same u wana pay 30 bucks for a blue ray movie when quality is the same and some extra BS content that you wont use...
Giorgi
08-21-2006, 06:02 AM
Yes but what about big games, then you have to pay 2 more times then just buying one BLURAY
Giorgi
08-21-2006, 06:11 AM
are you just fishin for post points? :P
Giorgi
08-21-2006, 06:31 AM
Well its ok then :)
asian_smith
08-21-2006, 06:56 AM
talk about DEAD technology
Giorgi
08-21-2006, 06:58 AM
No, it will soon come back in Zombie... Floppy Zombies are comming... Boo
yea it is a dead tech its amazing it lasted this long
Giorgi
08-21-2006, 07:12 AM
thats because u cant imagine case without floppy drive hole :D
Not true lian li makes lots of cases that have no floppy drive 3.5 slot.
Giorgi
08-21-2006, 07:16 AM
thats exception. Most of the cases come with floppy hole
its not a hole, its a external 3.5 slot and id say 70 % of cases still have them while the other 40% is specialized cases that dont now
Giorgi
08-21-2006, 07:19 AM
Yeah, that 40% will continue to grow as times go by
of course than there will be a large sale spot i think for external usb floppys for a short period during the transition
Giorgi
08-21-2006, 07:42 AM
Haha, I think they have to give them away as gifts
pht they wont do that any thing to make a buck
Giorgi
08-21-2006, 07:49 AM
I think at last they will have to pay money to us to make us take Floppyes at home :D
when its done said any over ill be happy one less thing to worry about.
Giorgi
08-21-2006, 08:00 AM
Yah... soon all FDD s will be piece of history
Giorgi
08-21-2006, 08:16 AM
R.I.P. Here Lies FDD :D
jacubilloro
08-21-2006, 08:55 AM
What I will always remember as a special moment will be the way floppy drives sound when reading/writing... those boring flash drives have no way to expres themselves!
lol not true you see the product design of the flash drive that inflates as it gets full and slims down as it gets empty... think thats awsome... It was on Gizm or Enga i forget witch
proxops-pete
08-21-2006, 08:04 PM
I have one lying around... somewhere... :p
floppy? or that cool thumb drive i was talkin about bec if u got that thumb drive i need to know were to buy one :)
azn1art
08-21-2006, 08:24 PM
floppy? or that cool thumb drive i was talkin about bec if u got that thumb drive i need to know were to buy one :)
I think he's talking about... ehh
Quote from u b4..
"not true you see the product design of the flash drive that inflates as it gets full and slims down as it gets empty..."
see if i had that thing id just sit there for a good 2 hours dumping files on it as fast as i can and deleting them so i can watch it expand and contract :)
jacubilloro
08-22-2006, 02:02 AM
Does it stays inflated when you disconnect it from the computer???
wel thats the idea of the concept design its awsome
jacubilloro
08-22-2006, 02:10 AM
So the drive has lie a tiny pump inside it... I would love to hack one of these...
i dont know could be lots of things but it is feasable to have a small compresor maybe a micro one but even than i dont know think that would break down
jacubilloro
08-22-2006, 02:13 AM
I obiously has some way to inflate itself, and I don't fknow of any USB ports that include compresed air as an option. Maybe USB 3.0???
azn1art
08-22-2006, 02:13 AM
Does it stays inflated when you disconnect it from the computer???
It stays inflated so you can see how much space is used. (Estimated)
well it could be some thing else that expands and contracks with electrical current a type of material.
jacubilloro
08-22-2006, 02:15 AM
Once again fun to hack it open and see what's inside. Even if I haveno useful purpose for doing this I want to know what is inside this thing.
well you might thats the whole idea of opening it dont know what you can use it for till you find out what it is...
heena
03-11-2008, 08:10 AM
I am using the "advanced" 3.5" Floppy drive
corporatebee
03-11-2008, 08:21 AM
I'm a complete noob when it comes to computers (doesn't help I'm living in China and operating on a chinese OS) but you'd be hard pressed to find a floppy disk in China these days is all CDs and thumbnail drives... I'm using email (mostly) and thumbnail (rarely) to get stuff from A to B.... considering a limited P2P network to get stuff back to my home in NZ
brightparis
03-14-2008, 10:04 AM
Since for a long time, i have not used it.
keith
03-14-2008, 11:08 AM
Oh man, I can't believe you guys are still talking about the "ancient dinosaur" :P
Yes, the "advanced" 3.5" Floppy drive . but i mostly use pen drive
rivers
05-07-2008, 09:10 AM
Nice thread here. I still have my old floppy disks back from school. :) Not sure if they still work though.
seemecelinna
06-01-2008, 02:59 AM
I also have floppy drive from my school.But i think few of 'em r damaged now.
tamages
06-04-2008, 04:57 AM
floppy...wow this word seem so old to me.
Have floppy discs or use floppy discs? I use them, but only when i go back to retreive old stuff that I have never bother to move over yet. I believe I still have some notched floppies too.
denire
06-12-2008, 12:44 PM
Whoa! I don't know floppies still exist? Well, anyway that's how fast technology is. I'm no longer using floppies, I am currently using thumb drives.
adefakhri
06-27-2008, 11:57 PM
Wekekekekek, who still use floppy, is there any crazy guys here ... i mean if still use floppy ;(
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jenilo
07-04-2008, 05:46 AM
When i started learning Computers then i bought a Floppy case but now i think few of 'em r still untouched. And,on few drives my very first project on computer is saved.
woodenkeyboards
07-10-2008, 01:41 PM
I have stopped using floppy drives, new computers no longer come with them but as I later discovered some back up programmes will still ask you to insert a floppy disk.
aperd1
08-14-2008, 08:05 AM
I'm still using it as I do update my bios.
sohel04
09-03-2008, 04:54 AM
I used to copy files to floppy then kick myself when the machine I was copying to didn't have one. My latest trick is to try to boot off DVD in a CD Rom drive.
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09-07-2008, 04:51 AM
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Citrical
10-29-2008, 05:11 PM
Nice timing man. When i have to go to grandparents place i always put some old games on a floppy and play them there. Some are quite fun 2 player ones like Cdogs.
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