Were to buy floppy disks

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jmcka13

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does any one know of any stores that sell floopy disks. i have looked in most of the big name stores and computer shops does any one know of any shops that sell them?
 
FYI: They ceased production of floppy disks in March of 2011. The only place you'll find them is Amazon and eBay.
 
S.T.A.R.S. said:
Wow...I thought I am using the old hardware,but floppy disks...wow!
Last time I used floppy disks was around 2003.
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I have to use one now and again on some machines that I need to install XP on but don't have a SATA operation option in the BIOS.
 
voyagerfan99 said:
I have to use one now and again on some machines that I need to install XP on but don't have a SATA operation option in the BIOS.
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Yes that is one of the only times I use floppy disks as well. My old Athlon 64 system needs a SATA driver on a floppy disk in order to get XP to detect the hard drive.

Sometimes you need a floppy disk to flash/update the BIOS on some older motherboards too.
 
vistakid10 said:
Yes that is one of the only times I use floppy disks as well. My old Athlon 64 system needs a SATA driver on a floppy disk in order to get XP to detect the hard drive.

Sometimes you need a floppy disk to flash/update the BIOS on some older motherboards too.
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Yeah but I don't trust those, so if I have a machine with a newer revision but it requires a floppy, I just leave it unless I need to.
 
I bought a 20-25 pack a year or so ago and still have a few blank ones.
You're right on older stuff not getting cheaper, DDR2 still isn't cheap.
 
MyCattMaxx said:
I bought a 20-25 pack a year or so ago and still have a few blank ones.
You're right on older stuff not getting cheaper, DDR2 still isn't cheap.
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you mean not cheap like it used to be. Sure machines are still using DDR2 on a regular basis, but DDR3 is the new standard.
 
MyCattmaxx said:
You're right on older stuff not getting cheaper, DDR2 still isn't cheap.
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RAM is pretty much the perfect example of old hardware getting more expensive - same with motherboards. The old DDR and DDR2 RAM is now more expensive to buy than it was years ago when those were the standards, and the Socket 1156 boards are hard to find and generally more expensive than the Socket 1155 boards. With the AMD boards it's not so bad because at least AM3+ is backward-compatible with AM3 meaning you can at least buy a new AM3+ board today knowing it will work with your older AM3 Athlon II or Phenom II CPU. Whereas Intel's 1155 is not backward-compatible with 1156.

IDE hard drives are also pretty expensive to buy new these days. Most computer hardware actually gets more expensive as it gets older, apart from really graphics cards I find. Back in 2009 a GTX 285 would you cost you over £300, now I can get one on eBay for less than £100. I think the same kind of goes for CPUs too, but some CPUs hold their value for longer than others do.
 
You can always built in the SATA drivers directly on the CD disk rather then using floppy disks.Not all computers have a floppy disk drive.
You can always buy USB floppy disk drive,but hey let's face it...not many people use it anyway lol...
 
S.T.A.R.S. said:
You can always built in the SATA drivers directly on the CD disk rather then using floppy disks.Not all computers have a floppy disk drive.
You can always buy USB floppy disk drive,but hey let's face it...not many people use it anyway lol...
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Not every SATA driver is the same ;)

But yeah, I use an external floppy.
 
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