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Is a floppy necessary in new builds?

It depends if you have 3rd party drivers to install or not you will need a floppy. Personaly for $3-5 it is not a deal breaker and I would go ahead and get one. I have thoght of removing mine, but every once and a while I find I suddenly need to use it for something or someone. Keep it around for another 5 years and by then It might be gone.

One of my latest uses for the floppy is slipstreeming windows cd's and copying old floppy games to cd-roms to add to my archival collection of vintage software.

PS Although it is not installed, I still have an old 5.25 floppy drive, because old games and intesting stuff can be found at goodwill for cheap, Like a whole box of old games for $1.
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Sometimes if you want to flash BIOS (could be mobo bios or video card bios, ...), you will need a floppy drive. I guess you could burn it into a bootable CD though.
 
Floppy drives still are one of the best recovery and diagnostic tools you may have. They can be a life saver when you really need one, so take a lesson from the titanic and keep one on board since you never know if you may sink.
 
It doesn't hurt to have one. Is it bleeding edge techonology? No... but it can be one of your best friends in an emergency. It's not a bad investment for the cost of a happy meal at McDonalds.

(I personally use LS-120 drives instead of a standard floppy... just a little more useful).
 
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