Still use floppy disks

[BigSteve_G]

I was just woundering.

On their day-to-day systems (no custom built NAS, firewalls, automated systems & things like that) does anyone still use floppy disks?

I just woundered as I've noticed a few posts on here regarding mounting floppy disks & it made me realise that even though I have a floppy drive in my system its been disconnected for probably about 9 years (& not used for 10)

[xenopeek]

Ah, sweet nostalgia I used to have a ton of floppy disks, but indeed it must have been 10 years ago if not more that I last used one. I don't have any floppy disks or disk drives now. Even my CD/DVD drive will not be needed soon I think; I only use it from time to time when I have some music on CD. But once classical music is more readily available for digital purchase, I won't need the CD/DVD drive. Everything else goes on USB thumb drives or mostly online storage these days. How times have changed...

[BigSteve_G]

Talking of CD/DVD - just realised, I cant remember the last time I played a music CD - just mp3's all time now-a-days

[HugeCamel]

Floppy disks might be dying but they've got a niche . . . In aviation for example, floppy disks are still used to update the flight management system databases on older aircraft. These aircraft will probably still be flying and requiring monthly updates for another 10yrs.

[SilverNexus]

We're going through our collection of floppy disks and rescuing the data from the degrading magnetic disks. It makes me sad to think that the old disks are just wearing out.
I used floppy disks into the mid-2000's, and still have a 3 1/2 floppy drive in my computer. I even used it recently to try to install MS-DOS 5 in a virtual machine.
I'd say one of the biggest problems with floppies is that files have outgrown them. About the only thing that fits on floppies anymore are documents and text files. Anything remotely fancy will take dozens of floppies, if its even possible. Half the time CDs aren't even enough space.
Maybe I'm just old school, but I'm not complaining, especially not with the marvelous tick-tick-tick of the AT keyboard I am using (with an adapter).

[monkeyboy]

They make nice rifle targets.

[Pikachu6708]

Ditched floppies for optical media and flash drives years ago.

[AnonKS]

I still keep floppies around for solar eclipses. Break one open and you can use the film to protect your eyes while watching an eclipse. Granted its rare.

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[Pikachu6708]

I quit using floppies for data storage years ago, but I made hanging ceiling art outta my old floppies by chaining them together with string.