external Floppy Disk Drive???

[docknload]

I would like the additional 3.5" bay and I wanted to know if its worth going to external FDD. Is this drive bootable with an empty machine?? I know it uses USB and the downside is that its like 60 USD.

Any Suggestions?

Danke

 

[dkozloski]

I service several machines that no longer have a floppy drive. I found it only takes a few seconds to pop the side off the case and temporary in an old floppy drive I have laying around when needed for troubleshooting or BIOS upgrading.

 

[TRUMPHENT]

External floppy drives are not bootable. They are not connected to the floppy drive controller. USB floppies are only of use to notebook computer users that do not have a floppy. What do you need the drive bay for? It would probably be better to get the external version of the thing you want than a floppy. For the price of the USB floppy drive, you coul get a really nice and roomy case.

 

[docknload]

I appreciate the input. I need the room for more harddrives, I am already using all 7 bays (including floppy) of my MID Tower that I just bought. I dont have the height to use a FULL otherwise I would have.

Thanks to both of ya.

 

[BurntKooshie]

Depending upon price, it might not be a bad idea to instead get a SuperFloppy (or LS120 -- same thing). They're not as commonplace as zip drives, nor as fast, but they are backwards compatible with floppy drives. In this way, you could get the slight usefulness of a larger (faster) storage medium, and backward compatablity

Of course, as other said, it's not bootable if it's external.

 

[StrangeRanger]

my flopp drive is "external", but not in your sense. it is literally duct taped to the outside of my box.
j

 

[TunaBoo]

I have the end of my floppy cable laying on the bottom of my case, and my floppy in a box. If I had need for it I could hook up a floppy to it. But as of yet I have not needed it. Bootable CD power.