This will get mocked, but up until recently I still included 3.5" floppy readers on my whitebox machines, in part for the simple convenience of running Memtest8

This will get mocked, but up until recently I still included 3.5" floppy readers on my whitebox machines, in part for the simple convenience of running Memtest86[+] without any fussing around - found it worked more consistently than USB booting. It was also handy for making boot disks for more ancient machines. Some media readers (like the Rosewill RCR-FD400 [1]) still integrated them, and for motherboards without the ribbon cable header you could swap out the stock one for a slim USB floppy drive (e.g. Y-E Data's YD-8U10 [2]). Here's a quick and dirty pic from the workstation I'm on now: https://i.imgur.com/ZIjHgat.png https://i.imgur.com/ZIjHgat.png One thing I miss about floppy disks (and other earlier forms of media like CD's) is they couldn't impersonate other devices onto your bus - a disk was just a disk. Less potential for compromised media to do bad things to your PC. [1] https://www.newegg.com/rosewill-rcr-fd400-74-in-1/p/N82E16820223111 https://www.newegg.com/rosewill-rcr-fd400-74-in-1/p/N82E1682... [2] https://web.archive.org/web/20100130173743/http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=YD-8U10-2&cat=RDM https://web.archive.org/web/20100130173743/http://www.geeks....