The floppy drive must DIE!

[Brutuz]

Legacy formats still used that should have been dead by now: Serial port, Parallel port, Floppy drive.

 

WHY do we need these? If I could have sacrificed my floppy connector for another IDE channel, I would have in a heartbeat. Floppy drives are USELESS. They lose their data 99.999999% of the time even if you don't do anything. Parallel ports are useless because... they don't make peripherals for them anymore. Same thing with serial ports. Component manufacturers: stop including old technology, it was replaced for a reason!

 

I still don't see why they are phasing out IDE, though. IDE is still very fast compared to SATA and I really don't understand why my motherboard has one IDE channel with six SATA ports. How about 2 IDE channels and 6 SATA ports and no floppy disk port? That sounds good to me.

Lets see, most retail outlets use Serial input for the cash registers, etc, I know I use it to flash older eletronics and stuff, Perallel, some people (Like me) Don't see the point of upgrading their perfectally working Scanner.

Floppy Drive, Today I got some new stuff for my Computer, a Intel Dual core CPU and that asrock mobo with AGP, PCIe, DDR2 and DDR slots, first thing I did once I had Vista up and running, was to go off and download the BIOS update, and put it on a spare floppy drive.

 

The poit in all this ramble is, Just because you don't use it, doesn't mean others don't.

 

Not to mention, the easiest way to make a RAID array is to use a floppy to install drivers and set it up, etc.

[Sillyhed2000]

It's one of the lesser reasons I don't get prebuilt computers, but rather I build my own from the parts - and I never order a floppy drive. Boot CD's of whatever linux distro I need to do the job (often Gparted LiveCD for partitioning) and any OS installation is on CD nowadays anyway. There's simply no need (for me, at least).

[Starion]

My Asus P5KC does have an FDD connector, however anything BIOS based is done through either Pendrive or the OS itself. It only has 1 IDE port on the motherboard itself too, meaning only 2 IDE devices. One of which is being used by a DVD-RW. I don't find any reason to have a SATA drive.

 

 

Legacy formats still used that should have been dead by now: Serial port, Parallel port, Floppy drive.

 

Even those are done away with on this mobo. This is what I have instead:

 

 

 

I guess it's the "cheaper" brands trying to be as compatible as they could be.

 

 

^ Thats worse, it's just replaced the serial port with a LCD display!

[liesofsilence]

I don't use them anymore but I still have a floppy drive. memories...

[Primer43]

 

 

^ Thats worse, it's just replaced the serial port with a LCD display!

That's a crosshair motherboard. I have it.

[matthew1g]

what's it used for? northbridge temps or what?

[Primer43]

It displays startup errors along with the posting beeps. While the computer is on it displays CPU temps.

[derty]

One day, the fate of mankind will depend on a floppy diskette,

my friend. Will the floppy diskette drive be able to handle the

current technology of the floppy diskette at that time?

That diskette must have a current hardware to run on.

 

SHould the industry "delete" the diskette drives?

 

That is a risk I am not willing to take.

 

BSOD2012 is gonna be gnarly.

 

-derty

 

edit: however, if you think about it, it is a DIskette, not a Disk.

 

ohh! ohhh!