[Kosh]

The problem with floppies is that except for doing SATA windows installs and BIOS flashing, what can it be used for? The A: drive just sits in the My Computer folder and collects dust for most of its life.

[Descenterace]

Floppy drives fail frequently. I've got a stack of ten of 'em, and less than four still work properly. Average age: 3 years.

[vyper]

Whatever happened to the LS120 standard?

[aldo_14]

The floppy in my computer, for example, is about 10 years old.

Funny how we all love to hate the decrepit floppy, love to hate how we're STILL dependent on it to install a Windows OS under certain not-rare conditions (such as installing to an SATA drive), and yet, in the end, the floppy drive itself is the most reliable thing we've ever had in a computer, dust and all. Even CRTs die out after 7-8 years, but I've never heard of a floppy drive (not disk, mind you, which is another story entirely) going belly-up.

Mine's broken.  Kaput.

[JoeLo]

For a gaming computer I was actually planning on a 6800GS but I my wait and get  7800GT, I buy cheap, or even get free computers occasaionally when building, so I part them out or sell them.

[Roanoke]

so is SLi essentially a 3dfx throwback, that has been left untouched for 5/10 years ?

[Grey Wolf]

The concept is, though they redid all of the technology.

[CP5670]

I haven't had any of my floppy drives ever break. I keep one in my main machine since it's the only way I can transfer files to my '90 mac (mostly retro games off Mac Garden) and it's also useful for occasional BIOS updates.

Wait a few weeks. The 7800GTs should fall in price with the release of the 7900GTs.

I guess I need to decide quickly whether I should sell my cards now and recover as much money as possible or wait to see if the 7900 line is any good and then see what to do. All the new rumors are indicating that the top end 7900GTX is going to be a letdown though, so I may be better off just sticking with what I have.

[Nix]

LS120 vs Iomega's baby?  The LS120 disks were slower than the Zip disks, and were expensive.  Iomega flooded the market with thier disks as well, and apparently did better than Imation's LS120.  I personally thought it was better than zip disks untill I saw some benchmarks on Zip vs LS120, internal models.  Yeesh. 

The floppy disk is a lifesaver, if you use the bootable HD utilities such as Ghost and Partition Magic, the floppy disk is your friend.  I'll always have one in any of my systems untill they are no longer manufactured.  I think the reason why we really havent been able to completely phase them out, is due to the lack of pimpage of Mount Ranier support for optical discs.  Most drives support Mount Ranier, and apparently, it would make the disc operate just like a floppy disk, though it honestly cant be that fast.

[Cyker]

I still have a Canon Dual drive installed in my system!

(It's a 1.2MB 5.25" and 3.5" combo drive in a single 5.25" bay )

I've not actually used it in a very long time 'tho...
It is, however, the only surviving component from my original computer

Unless you count the power lead and floppy cable... (Can't use new ones that come with mobos; They use 40-pin connectors. This drive uses the old 5.25" FDD connector!!!)

[Grey Wolf]

I haven't had any of my floppy drives ever break. I keep one in my main machine since it's the only way I can transfer files to my '90 mac (mostly retro games off Mac Garden) and it's also useful for occasional BIOS updates.

Wait a few weeks. The 7800GTs should fall in price with the release of the 7900GTs.

I guess I need to decide quickly whether I should sell my cards now and recover as much money as possible or wait to see if the 7900 line is any good and then see what to do. All the new rumors are indicating that the top end 7900GTX is going to be a letdown though, so I may be better off just sticking with what I have.

Current indications seem to be that the 7900s are going to be decent, though most likely just a clock increase. The silicon is probably 99% identical.

The early reviews do seem to suggest that the 7900GTs are the equals of the 7800GTXs, though.

[Nix]

I wonder if its possible to SLi that drive so you can write twice as fast to two disks at once! 

Dear God dont let JoeLo see that....

[Grey Wolf]

I wonder if its possible to SLi that drive so you can write twice as fast to two disks at once! 

Dear God dont let JoeLo see that....

RAID.

[Descenterace]

Anyone else seen the RAID-5 floppy drives?