[Action Retro] has a great video showing just such an escapade, the creation of a large RAID 0 array using a pile of USB floppy drives. Yes, taking one of the smallest and most unreliable pieces ...

His classic piece of hardware has been serving him well for years, except for the floppy drive, which recently gave out on him. No problem for [Maurizio], he just cracked his case open and added a ...

many people retained a floppy drive to read old files. In a network, drive mappings reference remote drives, and users have the option of choosing the letter. For example, on the local machine ...

(1) An earlier category of high-capacity floppy-like disk drives. In the early 1990s, the failed Floptical disk was the first. Later, the Zip drive fell into the super floppy category. See Zip ...

External hard drives back up your most important files, but what happens when they malfunction? Here's what to do if your ...

Most of the first series of Macs included internal 3.5-inch floppy drives. Later, Apple sold several models of the same drive in an external case with a cable to connect to the back of the Mac.

There are customized external USB ... of magnetic hard drives. If you still have an old model that is only supposed to be compatible with HDDs, give it a try. In many cases, it also recognizes ...

That’s why we’ve collected some of our favorite external hard drive deals below, although if you aren’t too keen on lugging around an external hard drive, there are a lot of solid internal ...

ZIP drives and portable hard drives --especially keychain-sized flash memory devices -- have established themselves as far more useful. "The utility of a floppy disk is just no longer there for ...

Executive Editor David Carnoy has been a leading member of CNET's Reviews team since 2000. He covers the gamut of gadgets and is a notable reviewer of mobile accessories and portable audio ...

External USB/Thunderbolt drives (aka direct-attached storage, or DAS) are a super-convenient way to quickly back up your important files, as well as store any data that you don’t need on your ...

One German Macintosh enthusiast has been able to clone and 3D print a working replica of a 1986 Mac Plus. Built over 40 weekends, the cloned Mac, called the “Brewintish Plus,” was a real labor of love ...