Do you still use diskettes?

Discussion in 'General Chat' started by thewolf32, Jan 25, 2008.

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    Do you still use diskettes? Or only CD's / USB key?

    I still use them like everyday because in my country there are a lot of old computers (and people can't afford a USB).

    What about you?
     
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  2. Dondon2d

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    No, not anymore. I use a flash drive, a CD, or a DVD and computers with floppy drives are rare in here nowadays.
     
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    diskettes? what it is, lol. Not anymore, i'd prefer to usb. simple and has various cute shape
     
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    well I go with whatever I can reach on my desk and size of the data and by the reason why I need it.

    I have diskettes, CD, DVD, USB drives on my desk and if it is just for quick save and not very important, I use diskette, if large files I use USB drive.

    If it is important, I use USB drive and/or backup in CD.

    Larger files or for master backup, DVDs
     
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    Diskettes - never used
     
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    I use them when I first setup servers, especially those that needs to read from diskettes for eg during hardware raid during installation of Linux servers, it is easier if you have a diskette with you.
     
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    I have a few diskettes like memtest for testing faulty memory, and a few boot disks for helping friends out with problem computers.
     
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    I guess I've never used them for one year now... :( I'm using USB flash disks instead... :D
     
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    I've got one under the back leg of my desk..
     
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    Only using USB pen drive to moving my data from lappy to desktop or destop to lappy though keeping my valuable backups on CD-RW. Diskettes are useless now a days IMO :rolleyes:
     
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    I have a couple in the basement, but I never use them. Only USBs and CDs.
     
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    Never used a diskette. I hate it.

    I already disabled it from the BIOS temporarily.
    Will remove and dump the 3.5 drive soon. :rolleyes:
     
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    Diskettes? lol.
     
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    Yeah..I still use these ones to start up Windows Vista. It only takes 1800 of them :D

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    • For daily backup = flash drive

    • For less frequent backup = CDs. And every couple of months I take the newly backed-up CDs to my safe deposit box. I have data there I absolutely cannot afford to lose to a fire or theft.
     
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    Diskettes! Haha.. Honestly, I don't think most people under the age of 18 would even know what a diskette was.
     
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    I've been using floppies (aka diskettes) since 1995 if I can remember right. Haven't used them for the past couple of years though. In fact, I sold my floppy drive to some dude down the street last year.
     
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    not for awhile now, those things are unrealiable. But I'm saving up a few of them for memories sake.
     
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    I never used diskettes in years, I mostly use my trusty 2 gig USB thumbdrive.
     
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    Techman: What kind of masochist buys a second hand floppy drive in this day and age?
     
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