How come there's no Soft Drive..

[tp4tissue]

It just seems like,,  well if you've named something Harddrive,  you should've named something Softdrive..

I mean, if volatility is the underpinning,  then they should've name Ram the Softdrive..

[user 18]

It just seems like,,  well if you've named something Harddrive,  you should've named something Softdrive..

I mean, if volatility is the underpinning,  then they should've name Ram the Softdrive..

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Is "floppy drive" (or floppy disk, I suppose) the word you're searching for?

[tp4tissue]

floppy is hard though.

[jdcarpe]

floppy is hard though.

Not these:

[tjcaustin]

floppy is hard though.

Why tp4 is single in 4 words.

[chyros]

The trick is to turn your software into hardware, naturally. Similarly your soft drive into a hard drive.

[tp4tissue]

floppy is hard though.

Why tp4 is single in 4 words.

Tj made it dirty..

[chyros]

floppy is hard though.

Why tp4 is single in 4 words.

I laughed. Loudly  ) .

[user 18]

floppy is hard though.

The data storage medium in a floppy disk is a flexible (floppy) magnetic disk. The data storage medium in a hard disk is a rigid (hard) magnetic disk.

floppy is hard though.

Why tp4 is single in 4 words.

They have pills for this now, you know

[mrbishop]

well "hard" drive refers to hardware and Soft drive would refer to software and since you dont really store data in software thats probably why its not a thing.

of if you want to make it dirty... reasons.

[rowdy]

A "hard drive" is only hard in comparison to a floppy drive.

A so-called hard drive can be bent and folded too.  I just tried it on a platter on my desk I'm using as a coaster.  Now I have a bent coaster.

[chyros]

A "hard drive" is only hard in comparison to a floppy drive.

A so-called hard drive can be bent and folded too.  I just tried it on a platter on my desk I'm using as a coaster.  Now I have a bent coaster.

Floppy drives aren't, and never were, floppy, though .

In fact, I have a 5 1/4 inch floppy drive on my desk at home. It's massive, and most of it is cast out of a single piece of metal Oo .

[xtrafrood]

print all the data of the HDD onto paper. Bind the paper with spiral binding. SDD. You're welcome

[jdcarpe]

print all the data of the HDD onto paper. Bind the paper with spiral binding. SDD. You're welcome

But that would be 'hard copy' then, right? 

[xtrafrood]

print all the data of the HDD onto paper. Bind the paper with spiral binding. SDD. You're welcome

But that would be 'hard copy' then, right? 

 )

[mrhead]

A "hard drive" is only hard in comparison to a floppy drive.

A so-called hard drive can be bent and folded too.  I just tried it on a platter on my desk I'm using as a coaster.  Now I have a bent coaster.

Floppy drives aren't, and never were, floppy, though .

In fact, I have a 5 1/4 inch floppy drive on my desk at home. It's massive, and most of it is cast out of a single piece of metal Oo .

I distinctly remember the 5 1/4" floppies from our C64 being flexible.  Especially when you insert it before the head has moved out of the way.

[chyros]

A "hard drive" is only hard in comparison to a floppy drive.

A so-called hard drive can be bent and folded too.  I just tried it on a platter on my desk I'm using as a coaster.  Now I have a bent coaster.

Floppy drives aren't, and never were, floppy, though .

In fact, I have a 5 1/4 inch floppy drive on my desk at home. It's massive, and most of it is cast out of a single piece of metal Oo .

I distinctly remember the 5 1/4" floppies from our C64 being flexible.  Especially when you insert it before the head has moved out of the way.

Yes, the floppies themselves were floppy, hence the term "floppy disk" . The drives are ****ing anvils though XD .

[mrbishop]

i'm just going to say this

tp gonna tp

[rowdy]

A "hard drive" is only hard in comparison to a floppy drive.

A so-called hard drive can be bent and folded too.  I just tried it on a platter on my desk I'm using as a coaster.  Now I have a bent coaster.

Floppy drives aren't, and never were, floppy, though .

In fact, I have a 5 1/4 inch floppy drive on my desk at home. It's massive, and most of it is cast out of a single piece of metal Oo .

Yes, if you want to get technical.  It was actually a "floppy disk drive", the adjective applying to the disk, not the drive.

The disks were definitely floppy, especially the 8" ones.  The 5.25" were the same construction, but seemed more solid as there was less surface area to flex.  3.5" floppies did not, in their entirety, bend much due to the rigid plastic case.  But the magnetic disk inside was very floppy.

[chyros]

A "hard drive" is only hard in comparison to a floppy drive.

A so-called hard drive can be bent and folded too.  I just tried it on a platter on my desk I'm using as a coaster.  Now I have a bent coaster.

Floppy drives aren't, and never were, floppy, though .

In fact, I have a 5 1/4 inch floppy drive on my desk at home. It's massive, and most of it is cast out of a single piece of metal Oo .

Yes, if you want to get technical.  It was actually a "floppy disk drive", the adjective applying to the disk, not the drive.

The disks were definitely floppy, especially the 8" ones.  The 5.25" were the same construction, but seemed more solid as there was less surface area to flex.  3.5" floppies did not, in their entirety, bend much due to the rigid plastic case.  But the magnetic disk inside was very floppy.

Haha the 8" ones are too old even for me xD . I know of them, but even the PC I had in the late 80s had 5 1/4" disks . I still run into them at the recycling centre from time to time! But never an 8" one (yet).

[FrostyToast]

Floppy disks are named what they are because the disk itself inside its plastic housing is flexible.
Most people just see the case and question why the floppy disk has the name it does, but they don't know what's on the inside.

[rowdy]

Floppy disks are named what they are because the disk itself inside its plastic housing is flexible.
Most people just see the case and question why the floppy disk has the name it does, but they don't know what's on the inside.

And it's what's on the inside that counts

[xtrafrood]

Floppy disks are named what they are because the disk itself inside its plastic housing is flexible.
Most people just see the case and question why the floppy disk has the name it does, but they don't know what's on the inside.

And it's what's on the inside that counts

I ripped open a few 3.5in floppies when I was younger and more destructive--can confirm

[chyros]

I found a 5 1/4 inch one with DOS on it a while ago at the recycling centre - oh, the memories!

[xtrafrood]

I found a 5 1/4 inch one with DOS on it a while ago at the recycling centre - oh, the memories!

I paid a visit to my local recycling center a few days ago to find lots of CRT TV/Monitors and a few HP port replicators. Not even the kind of replicators with HDDs

[rowdy]

Floppy disks are named what they are because the disk itself inside its plastic housing is flexible.
Most people just see the case and question why the floppy disk has the name it does, but they don't know what's on the inside.

And it's what's on the inside that counts

I ripped open a few 3.5in floppies when I was younger and more destructive--can confirm

I has a bunch of DDS tapes used for backups long ago.

All my DDS drives died years ago (maybe around 10 years ago), and the tapes have been sitting there unused since then.

So I had a cleanout and opened them all up and despooled all the tape, then cut it into random chunks.

Tape everywhere )