Sentence examples similar to floppy diskette from inspiring English sources
noun
Synonym of floppy disk
If you still have files on floppy diskettes, you can get an external floppy drive that plugs into the new machine's U.S.B. port for around $20.
When you consider that blank CD's cost about 25 cents each and can be played back on almost any computer on earth, floppy diskettes (which hold 1.4 megabytes each) and Zip disks (which cost $10 each, hold 250 megabytes or less and require a Zip drive to play back) suddenly look like relics.
The report itself is massive, as FERC reports often are, and is based on a 13-month investigation in which the staff collected "more than two terabytes of material, the equivalent of 1.5 million floppy diskettes or 3,341 compact diskettes".
Whether you go with the tried-and-true but outdated method of carrying floppy diskettes around, or use something more cutting-edge like a Secure Digital flash memory card, you can't argue with whatever works best given your needs.
But while the diskette is fading, as its cousins the 5.25-inch and 8-inch floppy disks did before the dawn of the 21st century, it is taking its time.
We have eliminated outdated terms (diskette, DAT).
All can hold far more data than the diskette.
If it does, copy the files on that diskette to your hard drive or another diskette and throw the damaged one away.
Cleaning the drive with a diskette cleaning kit (still available at many computer stores) may help remove any dust or debris preventing the drive from properly reading diskettes.
The diskette isn't such a bad compromise.
