Do you think floppy will ever die?

[roctronic]

Well,

i still use them to access dos and sometimes reformat old computers.

However, they offer 1.44mb of data, for like 10 bucks you can get almost 1000 times that, also way faster.

No brainer but it was huge a while ago

 

[trebor]

I'm currently sitting in a technical college class room who's computers don't even have Floppy drives... Floppy is dead...

 

[Loneua Technologies]

Its already dead

 

[Silverspoon]

Floppies (at least 3.5" disks) are used solely for antiquated machines that require floppies to perform BIOS updates and boots to drives the BIOS cannot (like USB stick on old motherboards).

New Motherboards still carry floppy drive ports as backward compatibility, but like the ISA slot and the parallel port... should be gone entirely within the next few years.

 

[BentFX]

Floppies are already dead in my house. Two of my machines have floppy drives that aren't connected.

Mini CD/RW disks make a better emergency boot medium. Magnetic disks... Ugh!

 

[sunils]

hi what do you mean by floppy?

I think i should change the question as what do you mean by cd?

there is an immense development in the secondary storage devices.

I dont even have a floppy drive.

 

[Silverspoon]

I don't use any rewritable CD/DVD media anymore. Not quite as unreliable as floppy, but the cost of CDs is so negligible, it doesn't justify getting RW media.

It seems flash memory is becoming the best RW mobile media.

 

[alex88]

They are already dead. just like minidiscs.... all long gone, i haven't seen one used in probably 2 or 3 years now, and the last 6 computers that i've built for me and my family all iddn't even have a drive. No point, like someone previously said, computers can boot from USB, cd, and even networks now.

 

[hezuo]

no it will never die, just like DOS.. XD XD

 

[Mindbleed]

Since when have you actually wanted to transport only 2 MB of files on something that easily loses data when you can have a flashdrive that runs without any extra hardware.

All you need is a USB port.

Hurray.

 

[Russ]

Yeah, it's almost dead. *looks at computer* I didn't even know I had one on here. I bet no one remembers the 'other' floppy.. the 5.25" disks..? And on another note, dos.. what's that?

 

[N4rk0]

In my opinion floppy are already almost dead , the main part of notebooks doesn't have a floppy drive...

 

[noerrorsfound]

In my opinion floppy are already almost dead , the main part of notebooks doesn't have a floppy drive...

New, pre-built desktop PCs don't have floppy drives, either. Floppy disks and their tiny storage capacity are outdated and rarely used. You can hardly fit anything on a floppy disk anymore; not even one full-sized picture from an average digital camera can fit on them. CD-Rs are very cheap and hold so much more data so there's really no reason not to use them, instead. Even cheap computers have included CD burners for a long time.

 

[bigjoe4]

I still use floppy but a lot of new PCs already don't have floppy drives so it is already dying.

 

[chisaku]

I already thought floppy died... I haven't used one for several years and my computer doesn't have one of those things you put the floppy disk in... in my school they still use floppies, but isn't it just better to send the text or image to an another computer through e-mail?

 

[noerrorsfound]

one of those things you put the floppy disk in

floppy disk drive/floppy drive:drool:

 

[com64]

1.44MB Floppy's ARE dying, but this is unfortunate. They still have several uses.. most of which Flash drives can be used as an alternative. However, as a techie I will always keep a floppy drive handy. Lots of people still use older OS's, or motherboards that dont support booting from USB.

I know it's unlikely but say you're CD/DVD drive dies and your motherboard can't boot from USB. You have a little bit of data you need to get at quickly. A DOS boot disc can become your best friend.

In the real-world, transporting data on a floppy is ludicrous - but it's ability to give you access to an otherwise faulty PC should never be understated.

What about ZIP discs? Havnt seen many of those around in a while...

 

[DarkenProject]

I voted "What's a floppy", even though I know

I actually think the floppy is already dead. For a while, I would only use one for when I needed "boot from disk" capability but didn't want to permanently write to a CD (for example, updating a PC's BIOS). Now though, i've set-up one of my Flash Drives as bootable and most PC's have "boot-to-USB" functionality.

But I will admit, I have a $5 floppy drive in my PC... ya know, just in case...

I bet no one remembers the 'other' floppy.. the 5.25" disks..?

OMG! Haven't seen one of those since I played "Oregon Trial" in Elementary School!

 

[cstamper]

What's a floppy for me. I know, of course... ;-)

They are dead. I don't have one in the pc I built for myself, and I never wanted one either. Their useless, even to boot w/ now that most mobos can boot off a flash drive.

Dead.

 

[medphoenix]

There will be no fossil of floppy....
1.44 mb,
making irritable noise when it's reading,
frequent data loss,

Yes It's dying.....

But floppy is the ancestor for data carrier - we should not forget about it.