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never flashed my VGA bios and never plan to, just can't take a $200 chance that it f's up my only video card, know what I mean.....I'll stick to overclocking, but I can see why you would need one every once in a while

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I havent used a floppy drive in over 2 years thanks to my thumb drive.

 

I still have one that I keep incase it need it for BIOS stuff or anything special, but I dont have one installed on any of my systems except for the family dell and that came with it.

 

I havent really needed one for anything, so I'd at least make sure to have one around, but not necessaraly installed all the time.

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Well, I really don't see how you can put anything on those things cept maybe a couple or word or some notepad files. Theres just no more. Btw can zip drives be placed in 3.5 bays or 5.25 bays?

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who would run windows on a RAID.. lol..

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raid-1 and raid-5... at least twice as reliable as a single disk, raid 5 is up to twice as fast too...

 

personally i run raid-0 cos i'm hardcore... if a disk fails it fails plain and simple imo, if i get a bad sector then boohoo i'll just run scandisk

 

i have floppy drives for stuff like memtest, bios flashes (mobo, graphics), firmware flashes (cd, dvd), sata/raid drivers...

 

yeah yeah, you could probably put those each on a bootable cd or slipstreamed cd... but how much of a pain in the arse is that? i just put some stuff on a floppy which either takes zero time (cos it's already there, e.g. memtest disk, sata/raid disk) or takes like 15 seconds (firmware/bios flash files)...

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The ugh..gateway we bought 5 years ago didn't come with one. they sent us a usb floppy instead. never installed one on it nor my current rig(now > 2 years old.) still have the usb. have used it in my win 98 days.

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