Thursday, January 21, 2010

Stand Alone Card Reader Is A Floppy Disk Drive Necessary?

Is a floppy disk drive necessary? - stand alone card reader

I will build a team and can not decide whether or not. Do not use floppy disks, but I know that you could need for a RAID array, or can be updated the BIOS. I want to use more than one hard drive, but ... and can use a flash drive for BIOS upgrade. There are players with built-in card reader, however, and I want to use, but are read not only for the reader to learn more and cost less than floppy / card ...

What should I do?

6 comments:

etheesda... said...

When the device is connected to the network, then the reasons for N, which will probably not use it anyway, and when you experience a strange situation where you have access to one, you can transfer files via e-mail transmission of a machine that does it. If the matter is that the collection of dust and waste of space.

Mcgoo said...

You're right, it is rarely necessary, however.

There is always a but. If you buy the card reader combo drive, you can create a boot / recovery CD, the system for all installed software. When this is done with a complete backup set of DVDs, you will produce the entire unit back, if you ever need. And if that happens, it would be damn glad that he spent the few dollars extra for the player and the DVD. After the backup is complete, with all major programs loaded, you can incremental backups, where very little space on a weekly or monthly. So you can restore the files and save-even point. Again, value, if necessary, then they are worth their weight in gold.

Jolly said...

For its own use, probably not. But as a technophile often at the end do the work of others for the PC, and some are older and may need to boot from a floppy disk, install a program, etc. So it seems fitting to take a ride on my PC for the transfer.

Softball... said...

Not many new PCs are shipped without them and ... 9 I have only 1 computer has a floppy disk, but the 5 years and do not use the drive in him ...

zippo_da... said...

Not really, there's disk will be used only rarely, the main form of preservation file writable CD or flash units.

Tasha H said...

If you do not, you run into a reason why you need it. If you never need it. It's just how the universe works.

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