kierthos | I don't mean to be a techno-snob

Look, I know somewhere between jack and shit about hardware. I can manage to open up my computer case and re-seat/replace my video card, or use compressed air to clean out the inside of the case. That is roughly the limit of my expertise.

I am not a computer geek.

However, that being said... this is 20-fucking-10. Could people please stop using floppy disks? You can get a cheap USB drive for about the price of a new box of disks, and it holds a shitload more information.

Also... no moving/easily scratchable parts. It's much harder to fuck up a USB drive by carrying it in your pocket, there's no little spring-loaded sleeve to get bent, ripped off, or broken. (Yes, I've been handed a disk that had the little slidey-thing missing. No, I could not read the data from it.)

Hell, several years ago, I had someone who wanted to know if I could perform 'disk surgery' by opening up a floppy disk with a damaged case, and transfer the disk portion to a new case. (I told them 'No.')

Seriously, $10. Go to Wal-Mart and get one.

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Well, I agree with you on almost everything, save that USB fobs are a lot easier to end up in the wash. I know. I washed mine. Fucker still works though.

I think that's the point really.

"Fucker still works". You ran it through the wash. Nothing electronic survives the dreaded 'Washing Machine'...

yet this did.

Yea, scrap the floppies. It's time for USB.

Exactly. If you carry a floppy disk in anything but a hard plastic box (and sometimes even then), it's going to have a 50% chance of being completely fucking broken.

I've seen people pull them out of their back pockets after driving into the parking lot and act shocked that we can't read their precious data.

FUCK FLOPPY DISKS.

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