Black Floppy Drive $5-$6 AR at OfficeMax

[fornax]

It's kind of late, but this week OfficeMax has a MadDog internal floppy drive for $15 + tax and then a $10 rebate. Came to $6.20 for me after taxes. Decent price if you're willing to gamble on the Maddog rebate. The one I got was a very good NEC floppy drive.

 

[BigHurt]

ppl still use floppies?

whens the last time you put one of those to good use? i just use a flashdrive for everything i do now.

 

[Reiniku]

you still need floppy's to flash your bios

 

[Witling]

You don't need a floppy to flash my MSI motherboard -- and this model is a couple years old. I think that it's generally true of MSI that you just flash it right from their Web site. I don't really even know if the program is downloaded first.

 

[Ronnie]

And to install raid.🙂

 

[compusion]

Thanks .. I need one of these. Can you believe it! Testing WinXP 64bit.

 

[kamranziadar]

nice

 

[JohnDoh]

Never seen them have something instore rebate only

Only thing see on the site is this.. http://www.officemax.com/max/s...prodBlockOID=537158205

 

[scoreadeal]

Originally posted by: JohnDoh
Never seen them have something instore rebate only

Only thing see on the site is this.. http://www.officemax.com/max/s...prodBlockOID=537158205

No... it's a INTERNAL floppy.

Hot deal for those of you who buy Dell Dimensions without the floppies...

 

[scoreadeal]

And maybe you could make $5 if you have one of those $10 off $20 in-store coupons that don't have any restrictions...

 

[gluck]

Originally posted by: scoreadeal
And maybe you could make $5 if you have one of those $10 off $20 in-store coupons that don't have any restrictions...

How do you get those coupons ?

 

[newbiepcuser]

If there is Fry's near you, black floppies usually run 7.99 to 9.00 without rebates on their weekend sales.

 

[cremefilled]

Checking pricewatch, floppies start at $8 delivered in single quantities. With OM, you have to A) mess with a rebate, from a rather untrustworthy source; B) pay salestax; C) pay postage; D) take your time to go to the store, as well as filling out the rebate (MadDog will also require Internet registration), and even depositing the rebate check.

 

[scoreadeal]

OfficeMax mails them out every now and then, they look like gift cards.

Originally posted by: gluck

Originally posted by: scoreadeal
And maybe you could make $5 if you have one of those $10 off $20 in-store coupons that don't have any restrictions...

How do you get those coupons ?

 

[VirtualLarry]

Wow, nice. I just bought a new black case, and without thinking, ordered a beige (mitsumi) floppy. A black NEC floppy is definately worth it. My current rig has an NEC floppy from years past, and it is the only "silent" floppy drive I've ever come across for desktop systems. I'm not saying that all of them are, this one actually seems like it was designed for a laptop and adapted with a desktop bezel.. but here's hoping.

I wonder about the MadDog rebates though, some have claimed to have trouble with them. :|

Edit: Did the OP happen to notice that they have an external USB floppy, for $10 AR too? That could potentially be hotter, especially for the SFF/iMac kinda crowd. A lot of USB floppies run at 2X speed too, although you need some driver contortions to get them to work with Win98se. (Need to avoid installing a certain Win98se update described as an update for Firewire video-input devices, and need to copy some driver + .INF files over from a W2K machine, but after that USB floppies work fine on Win98se.)

If you can get your local OM to honor Staples $10 off of $40 coupon, the OTD price for the USB floppy is $35, with a $25 MIR. Add $5 worth of filler (maybe some media?), and then when all is said and done, the USB floppy will be nearly free.

 

[the Juice]

this is B&M?

 

[lsman]

Originally posted by: the Juice
this is B&M?

Means Brick and mortar store. Physical store.

 

[corinthos]

what is this... floppy you speak of?

 

[krazydimund]

for those who dont like to mess with mir, heres one for 12 bux with shipping from newegg:
http://www.newegg.com/app/View...tion=21-103-116&depa=1

 

[drinkmorejava]

cool, but um, people still pay for those things?

 

[Vpham97]

Is the cable included?

 

[uwannawhat]

Originally posted by: fornax
It's kind of late, but this week OfficeMax has a MadDog internal floppy drive for $15 + tax and then a $10 rebate. Came to $6.20 for me after taxes. Decent priceif you're willing to gamble on the Maddog rebate . The one I got was a very good NEC floppy drive.

Bad experiece on the MD rebates for me. Otherwise I'd grab an extra (if not for the rebate) as I just bought one from newegg a few days ago.

 

[freshspace]

Originally posted by: Reiniku
you still need floppy's to flash your bios

True.

 

[exorr]

What's a floppy? This should probably be moved to off topic...

 

[thedealmaker]

floppy is still useful, some companies are still stubborn enough to use floppy for firmware upgrade. Some hardwares still use floppies as driver disk. Some even write their software in a way that you can't use cd to boot their software inside the floppy, at least it's a pain to find out what to change inside the script in order to use it in a CD.

2 years ago, Western Digital still used floppy as driver disk. Of course, I downloaded mine from their website.