[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 ...

But wait, surely this is a solved problem? Why not just pick up a cheap USB floppy drive from the A to Z online retailer we all love to hate? Unfortunately, these gadgets are something of a mixed bag.

Floppy disks, if you’re older than 30, you likely remember these from school. In the days before CD-Rs, thumb drives, and ...

The Municipal Transportation Agency board approved a new contract with Hitachi Rail to upgrade its existing train control ...

Adafruit has designed a floppy drive PCB that uses an RP2040 with the ... It also has optional USB-C support. At the moment, the PCB features a 34-pin IDC pinout for interfacing.

The 8-inch floppy disk was eventually succeeded by ... but by then rewritable CDs had been adopted more widely. Before USB flash drives proved to be the most popular rewritable storage medium ...

"The utility of a floppy disk is just no longer there for most users," Bajarin said. Dell brand 16-megabyte USB flash memory drives will be offered standard in Dimension's high-end model first and ...

Graham Tinkers has created a Raspberry Pi-powered system that automatically backs up stacks of floppy disks and takes a picture of the label as it goes.

There are two kinds of Write protection available for USB drives viz: Hardware Write Protection ... is mostly available in the card reader or floppy disks. In hardware write protection there ...

programs were beginning to be loaded from floppy disk. They were also used as a portable means of storage and for backups. A solid-state drive (SSD) uses technology similar to that of USB drives ...

Storage capacities evolved to 250MB and 750MB in 1998 and 2002 respectively, but the USB and FireWire-based 750MB drives could only read but not write 100MB cartridges. The Zip was a floppy-like ...