3.5 floppy rives: Still useful or obsolete?

[Bluestealth]

Its more of when microsoft allows you to load them from CDROM/USB, should be with Vista, read somewhere that Beta2 included it
So its not manufacturers fault, btw I have been integrating RAID drivers since Sp2 was released 🙂

 

[JEDIYoda]

Unga bunga...fwoppy dwive gwoood thwing stwill

 

[villageidiot111]

I haven't had one for three years.

 

[Texun]

IMO, they are too cheap not to have but they aren't useful in the conventional sense. I don't know of anyone who uses them for transferring files, but for BIOS flashes they are still down and dirty effective. Making BIOS boot disks is all I use one for now. I could burn a CD and use nLite to slipstream my drivers but at $10 a pop it's easier to install one just in case I need it.

 

[SynthDude2001]

I've used my drive once or twice in the last few months for BIOS flashes, but even that can be done with a CDRW. I actually have my drive disconnected now, but haven't bothered to actually remove it from the case 😛

Haven't used the things for any actual file storage in quite a few years...

 

[Avalon]

I use mine about once a month, and at work I use floppies a hundred times a day to run quick diagnostics and disk wipes.

 

[fire400]

if you're an enthusiast, you gotta have the floppy drive..

Q: "yeah, I have a cool computer."

Q: "where's the floppy drive?"

A: "my computer is too cool to have one."

Q: "how will you setup a RAID?"

Q: "my school report is on a floppy, though?"

A: "sorry, go use someone else's computer."

 

[Bluestealth]

"Q: My school report is on a floppy, though?"

*takes out degausser*
A: not anymore

 

[Googer]

As long as you are running windows xp on a home built or local computer shop made PC, then ,you need a floppy. If you bought a large corporttion OEM machine (dell, IBM, HP, etc) and it did not come with a floppy then you probably do not need a floppy drive, becasue the OEM will provide all the drivers and BIOS updates through windows.