What are the /g/ recommended diskettes?
i would not as someone has relocated my 3,5" floppy drives but i have some TDK MF-2HD
We're quickly approaching a time where there will be no working floppy disks left anywhere in the world anymore. All the disk factories shut down a decade ago and floppies only have about a 20 year lifespan. Working floppies are going to cost thousands of dollars some day soon because of how scarce they will be.
>>109568799there are substitute drives available that don't require floppy discs to useor just make your own discs lolhttps://youtu.be/TBiFGhnXsh8
any kind would work. but ideally ones with metal shutters. always do a CLI format a: in windows. it will scan for bad sectors and tell you after formatting.
>>109568667BASF AND RED PILLED
>>109568812Ok but what does that have to do with what I said?
>>109568855you can keep using devices that take floppies even when there's no working floppies left
>>109568877What about a laptop with some kind of small form factor drive and no i/o to connect a floppy drive substitute to?
>>109570130if it's new enough to have a thinner style floppy drive in it there's probably a hdd in it as well you can put programs on instead, or pcmcia/serial to transfer stuff over using.you don't always need to replace the floppy drive if there are other methods available, replacing the floppy specifically is more useful for devices where the floppy drive is the only normal means of loading software/data and the machine isn't easily replaced with something else. like if it's a pc laptop then you can probably use another pc/laptop instead.you'd have to go pretty far back to find a laptop without a hdd or option for a hdd at which point it's probably a full size floppy drive as well
>>109570150here's an example of a device where you practically have to use the floppy interface. there's lots of devices like this where the only means of storage is the floppy drive
>>109568667funny thing all the old floppies still werk, i have USB floppy drive and when i tried some old ones from the 90s it just has the data on it still...
