If you have some old floppy disks lying around, then you may want to check out this fun DIY USB drive which was made using an old 3.5 inch floppy. This fun USB drive was made by Charles Mangin from , ...

Back in the day, the floppy drive was all the rage. Being able to transport your data from one PC to another, all thanks to this small, square thing that could usually fit right into your pocket. Of ...

More loyal readers (read: those willing to sit through a video featuring me) might remember a spot we did on turning an old floppy disk into a USB drive. The results were disastrous, involving ...

The coolest concepts are always the simplest ones, and the USB Floppy Drive from designer Thomas O’Connor is no different. Shaped like an old school floppy drive, this USB drive can store a lot more ...

My ASUSP5Q Pro Turbo mobo does not support an internal floppy disk drive. The manual states that under Windows XP, you need to use an external USB floppy drive to create the required Raid driver disk.

About a week ago, Linus Torvalds made a software commit which has an air about it of the end of an era. The code in question contains a few patches to the driver for native floppy disc controllers.

A “Floppy RAID” might sound like the title of a frustrating niche adult movie, but it isn’t. Instead, it is a homebrew project by Daniel Blade Olson* which cobbles together five 3.5” floppy drives ...

Some Android phones have microSD card slots, others don’t. But most have USB ports (with maybe one notable exception). That means you can plug in a USB flash drive if you can find one with a ...

Do external usb floppies come in normal thicknesses? I have a slim external floppy, but I'm looking for a standard height one to put in a computer. This means taking the drive out of it's external ...

YE-Data has released their YE-Data 2X USB Floppy Drive. It’s less than an inch thick, weighs less than 10 ounces, and has a suggested retail price of US$69.95. “There is not much that can be done to ...