Floppy Drives

Floppy disk drives were the first drives most people had when computers really took off. At 5.25 inches, then 3.5 inches, they commonly held 720KB or 1.44MB; not enough in the face of growing software packages and competition from later electronics generations--CDs then DVDs. But the venerable technology, now over 30 years old, didn't die, it upgraded. You can still find a 720K drive or 1.4M drive, but today's top-line floppy drives can hold a much bigger disk--as much or more than DVD and CD drives--and you can get that extra storage capacity for much less money at Overstock.com.

In case you're wondering, a floppy drive uses a DISK, while an optical drive uses a DISC--it's the easy way to keep floppy disks, compact discs and digital versatile discs straight. Many new computers no longer have factory-installed internal floppy drives; the factories think that fancier CD-RW drives or DVD-RW drives are the way to go. These are good drives, but every computer owner should have an external drive, and external floppy drives are a great way to go. Think about it--buy an external floppy drive, hook it to your computer only when doing your weekly or monthly file backup, then disconnect. If a virus hits your personal computers or office computer systems, it can't touch the drive that isn't connected; all your files are recoverable.

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