I need an internal USB Floppy. I bought what I thought was one with a mitsumi card Reader. It turned out that it still needs a 34 pin ribbon cable. What are these brainless nerds thinking making all these external
usb floppies, when what is really needed is an INTERNAL USB Floppy
Idiots! How hard can that be? It's not rocket science!!! Does any one know of a True USB floppy, I really need 1 bad!!

Why is that needed? At work we have one external USB floppy that can be used by anyone who needs it, it is almost never used. Why would anyone want to mount a floppy drive (semi)permanently in their case when almost no one uses floppies for more a couple minutes at a time? I only know a couple people who use floppy drives still and they either use old computers or buy new ones with regular interal floppy drives.

Probably not hard, but you are the only person I've ever seen who wanted one, why would they go the trouble of making one just for you?

What world are you living in? Where I live everyone I know use's a floppy drive, Ever try to put a 5 1/4 inch cd in your shirt pocket. Not everyone is going to run out and buy the latest thing like DVD's, that hold a thousand times what you need. In the 2nd place? The usb floppy has been around a long long time and they should of made them sooner. Maybe there isn't a reason to make Serial ATA DVD's because they mite not be popular?
What is this, a singing contest? I was asking a very reasonable question. It's just yesterday I bought a Samsung 20x ATA DVD and it is GREAT!
I also listened to the swan song of buying a external USB drive which works flawlessly when its not been dropped on the floor. I'm apparently not as wealthy as you and can't a ford a huge desk. I still need an answer to my problem. I thought Forums answered problems, Not Create Them!
I have a Cheiftec case,a Antec True power II PS, A 36 Gig Raptor HD, 2 Gig DDR2 memory, a E6600 cpu,2 20x DVD's and a 19" Samsung LCD &
a snotty external usb floppy. I doubt this is out dated equipment!!

Must agree; it's gone the way of the dinosaur.

No, what world are you living in? They still driving Edsels and winding the telephone in your neighborhood? Either you don't get out much, or you don't know too many people. The modern day "rocket science" is a 1gb thumb drive that you can buy at Staples for a measly $15. Frankly, everytime I put one of those hockey pucks in my shirt pocket, the lint or the heat made it go "tits up." Get real, get outside more, and join the 21st century. Yeah, the millenium flipped over while you were winding the generator.

lmao, the question is what world are you living in?!

I live in NYC. At work I cannot remember ever using a floppy disk in the past 7 years. At home, the last time I ever used a floppy was about 6 years ago to update the motherboard BIOS.

There is no such thing as an internal usb drive! If you want such a drive, just glue on the external drive.

They're called flash drives, they are faster and hold more data than floppies and are compatible with any computer running 2K or better. I understand that some people prefer the Amish country, but I'm not one of them.

DVD's are hardly the latest thing, DVD-burners have been cheap for years.

They started making them in quantity when internal floppies started to disappear, before then there was no reason at all.

SATA optical drives have been desired by the geeky masses since SATA became the hard drive standard, the problem in that case was the continued willingness of mobo makers to put PATA on their boards. The difference is that the floppy drive has been dead for a while while optical drives are still standard.

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Mildly reasonable, the problem is most of your post was bitching instead of asking.

I fail to see the relevance, the external floppy we have at work is tiny, if your desk is so small that you can't fit an external floppy on it then it shouldn't be big enough to use in the first place. As for wealth, a flash drive costs less than a floppy drive.

We created a problem?

The rest of it? no, the floppy drive? yes. Seriously, buy a flash drive, grab an old POS computer with a floppy in it and copy all your floppies to the flash drive, you won't regret it.

No kidding! A bit arrogant for newbie with only 8 posts.

QFT

I didn't know that the amount of post's you make determines how superior you are. This must be the only forum he's ever been on. Everyone has made some good points BUT you all have missed the point
of my diatribe as you would call it. The POINT being That the very 1st day they brought out the first external usb Floppy they COULD of and SHOULD of brought out an INTERNAL floppy. Then for those of US who appreciate a neat and unclttered desk could keep it that way and people who don't appreciate it could have THEIR WAY with external DVD's, External Hard drives and others. I didn't suggest that you aren't welcome to use those devices and I am not insane to prefer my way. People in the BIG cities Make BIG money and down in southern IL where GOD lost his shoes things are a mite different. I have a Flash drive and THEY are Fantastic. But I have over 90 or so floppies that I don't want to lose(maybe I'l hhave too) . The 1 guy that was really trying to be helpful, said about glueing one in, I may Try that. As for bitchin, I'm 77 years old and it makes me feel GOOD!! Lightin UP!!

Yes

No. If you want an internal floppy you buy a regular floppy, simple as that, some motherboards don't have floppy connectors true, but if you want a floppy drive you buy a motherboard with a floppy connector. Its really not that hard. Same thing with PATA, some motherboards now don't have any PATA connectors, I still have PATA drives so I don't buy motherboards without PATA. If you bought a computer without a floppy drive then you made a mistake, there is no reason for a company to go to the trouble of making a floppy drive meant to be mounted internally with a USB connector for the extremely small number of people who don't have internal floppy connectors and want internal floppy drives.

Most people don't want to deal with external drives, but the reason that the kind of drive you want isn't made is because there isn't going to be any demand, almost anyone computer savvy enough to install an internal drive will have either bought a floppy drive with their computer or doesn't need one.

I didn't say that you said that and I didn't say that you were.

This is absolutely irrelevant, money isn't the issue...well I guess it is in a way, there isn't enough demand to make enough money for the style of drive you want to have. Your computer is actually not far off mine value-wise

It would be an excellent idea to replace them, floppies are prone to corruption and really shouldn't be used as long-term storage

I still think my idea is better, just dump all the files on your floppies onto a computer that has a floppy drive and then copy them to a flash drive. But to each his own.

But it really, really doesn't endear you other people. It makes you come across as very annoying and unlikable and decreases your chances of getting positive feedback.

I actually have that same Mitsumi floppy/card reader you speak of. Hey, if you're gonna have a floppy, you might as well have a card reader, right?

Anyway, as you probably already know, the USB part is for the card reader only. Why do you want to hook up an internal floppy via USB? Don't all motherboards have floppy connectors still? I don't think you'd get any speed benefit hooking up a floppy to USB, it would be limited by the old technology anyway. Kind of like driving a Chevette on the Autobahn You can still hook up the floppy drive to your motherboard's floppy connector if you have one.

C'mon people! A floppy drive is like $10! getting one doesnt hurt anybody! I still use them and buy them in case cuz u never kow when u gonna need them!

Example, RAID installations, when you need to format a hard drive or idk many other things.

Is that really bad to show your friends that you have a floppy? Who gives a crap, I do have one and Im not afraid to say it.

You know, I've been looking for an external USB floppy with a good card reader (7 or 8 in one doesn't work for me) for a while, and haven't found one yet. BUT, I did find an internal floppy (without the card reader) that connect to a USB header. I can't find it anymore though.

I do have to agree with everyone else here though. Floppy drives are legacy items at best. Best case you are looking at around $20 for the drive you seek. for $23 you can get a 2GB USB flash drive that holds 1388 times what a floppy holds. More than that, its smaller, more durable, more portable, has better data integrity, and in some cases is more secure than a floppy drive/disk.

Even more, for someone who has repeatedly mentioned money and economics, you seem dead set on using a technology that is over a thousand times more expensive per MB doesn't seem to make a lot of sense. I am not condemning your choice, I just can't say I understand why you seem so upset by this.

What is the problem using the floppy connector and USB header connection in the first place? I must have missed it if you ever explained it.