Do I need a Floppy Drive at all?

[erikistired]

i didn't put one in this pc til last weekend when i needed to flash the bios. i ended up just mounting it and leaving it.

 

[Miramonti]

the Floppy is the disk drive of the past, present and future. It will probably outlive the usefulness of every other computer component you have, except for the power cable.

/rhetoric off.

 

[kkeennyy]

you might only need a floppy if your BIOS doesn't support modern bootable media like CDs or USB flash drives

 

[Kwad Guy]

Typically, no. HOWEVER, there are still some firmware update programs out there that are distributed in an executable that will ONLY extract to a floppy drive. (And the components of the executable can't just be uncompressed into a file, either). Fortunately, there aren't a lot of these. Unfortunately, there are still some of them...

Kwad