FLOPPY'S and Stuff

This Bloggy we go back to terms. And we have a little research to do. We get to look at internal Floppy Drive’s and External Floppy drive Price’s. I think I saw a floppy on a George Lucas Film once. Just kidding I am Old and remember when these thing where like huge, like a 10 inch to 3.5 floppy. I cannot believe people still use these thing's they seem so Pre historic. Like an 8 Track player versus a CD or MP3 player. Plus we look at connection types and of course Pro’s and Con’s of prices and usage. This is real fun stuff. Well not really, but it does add up on the Dry ’ O ’ Meter.

Internal Floppy’s look like they are going on the EBay for .99 cents to $30.00 bucks. They are going cheap because they probably came out of something or for it to be used you have to actually install them into your PC.

External Floppy on the EBay is going for .99 cents to about $150.00 bucks depending on Brand. Most External connectors are USB now. There is a SATA type connector too. These puppies are price for the easy Plug and Play feature. All you have to do in plug in and run. Plus I think the speed and read is boosted with the USB set up. So these drive seem to take the advantage if you are running a lap top maybe.

Here are The Terms we get to look at and define:

DMA Direct Memory Access. This transfers the data to the memory without having to use the CPU.
Low level formatting This is track and sector formatting done at the Factory for IDE drives.
SATA or Serial ATA. This is the standard now. It uses a Serial data path cable than a parallel or an EIDE cabling.
ATA AT Attachment, is basic level connector. Some other would be – PATA or ATAPI. ATA sets how your Peripherals like Zip drives/ CD and DVD communicate with the mother board and BIOS.
IDE Integrated Device Electronics. This covers the way the Drive it self operates.