[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 ...

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

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.

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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 ...

and with much greater capacity than a typical floppy. Smaller, more compact, and less fragile than CD/DVD: A USB key drives storage medium will never scratch, and it is much more rigid than CD/DVD ...

If you don’t need the fastest USB drive around, you can save a bit by opting for a USB 2.0 or USB 3.0 drive but it will take longer to transfer files onto and off of the device. USB 3.0: Up to 5 ...

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.

"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 ...

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.