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Getting rid of floppy drive - worth it or not? Computer Gurus assemble!!!
saint:
I have kept one in my last couple of machines because I didn't have the right size cover plate for the hole. I just leave it unplugged :)
Kayden:
--- Quote from: garnerb350 on May 26, 2009, 02:11:30 pm ---I thought so ( yank it)...but I tried to search on the web, and i saw where you might have to remove it from BIOS and mess...( which I dont want to touch)...
Good...now I can go and see if Floppy drives make good skeet targets....PULL!!!!
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It really depends on the motherboard. Some complain if you have the floppy enabled in the bios but don't have one attached. If it works, then it works. If your PC has a floppy drive, I don't see the point to pulling it out (beyond airflow), but if I were building a new PC, I certainly wouldn't included one. Technically, disabling the floppy does free up ram, but it's a very, very minuscule amount.
Chris:
I would still put it in a new machine... it's only a $7-$8 part, and having it doesn't consume much in the way of resources. A couple years from now though and i probably wouldn't.
If my case only had one 3.5" external bay, though, I'd use the space for a memory card reader before I'd use it for a floppy drive. I'm hoping that in a couple more years we'll be buying SD cards in boxes of 10 for $10-$15 like we did with floppy disks.
Level42:
This only shows how PCs are holding back development.....floppy's have been ditched by certain computer manufacturers AGES ago since they are completely obsolete. O and at the time they got a bucket load of ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- because of them doing so.
Floppy's, yes I still got a number 5.25" that is, for my Atari 1050 :)
Chris:
How is it holding back development to retain the ability to read old media? If I remove the floppy from my PC right now, what developmental gains will happen?