First introduced in 1987, 3.5 inch diskette today is not a way to share your information with others as 1.44MB is even less than a typical power-point presentation, not talking about popular audio or video files. It seems that now it is just the right time to get rid of those FDD drives as they are practically not needed at all. As Clubic web-site reported, Dell had decided not to install this antique device into some of its new computers, for instance, in Dimension 8250 series. Instead of this rudimentary data-storage device, Dell will supply flash-drives (like these) with their new PCs.

It seems that CD-Writers, DVD-Writers and Flash-Drives have finally managed to kill the FDD that had succeeded in killing ZIP drives, Jazz drives and numerous data-storage products that appeared in nineties. Dell is the first to understand the fact that FDDs are not needed by most of the consumers any more and we now expect that other computer vendors will follow Dell with this wise decision.