Floppy still needed?

[gman]

I've got a floppy/card reader that I'd like to use in the Cooler Master Cosmos 1000 that I'm transferring all my stuff to. The way they have the 3.5" bracket install by default is a the very bottom of the drives bays. You can move the lower fan up to the same location to cool the hardrives, which is what I'd like to do. So, should I just ditch the floppy/card reader and go to a USB card reader and use a USB thumb drive for flashing BIOS and other things we use to use a floppy for? What do most of you guys do?

 

[Drexl]

I haven't had a floppy drive installed for a few years now. I have a drive laying around just in case, and I wouldn't recommend getting rid of it if you have one, but lately I haven't needed it at all. I've been able to do motherboard BIOS updates from a USB flash drive, and optical drives get their firmware updates in Windows. It's enough to just install one temporarily for a rare occasion when you may need it.

 

[munkle]

I have never needed one for my xp machine, but when I work on older pc's alot of them need floppy's. So if you work with alot of old computers I would use one, if not keep one around just in case but don't install it.

 

[Maxtr0sity]

I have a floppy/media card reader combo deal on my machine. If you ever need to setup RAID, you'll need one.

 

[MC FLMJIG]

Dead it already

 

[Standpoint]

I don't think you'd really need one for a rig like yours, but for mine, a socket 939 I do. I need it for a better method of BIOS flashing and for setting up my RAID.

 

[gman]

Thanks guys. I'm keeping it out of this rig for now. I'll just buy a separate card ready that is plugged in to a USB port. When BIOS flashing I'll use a USB. I never really used it anyway except for BIOS and Memtest, the floppy part that is.