"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
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The cost? $13 bucks. No sense in eliminating it, for that!

It costs more than $13 (ignoring for the moment that $13 is pretty steep for
a floppy). That's just the cost of the part. There's an incremental cost
in labor to install it, plus additional support costs related to the fact
that it's just one more component that can fail.

And when I wrote that a floppy drive is a "dust collector", I wasn't just
using that as a figure of speech. The floppy drive is literally a place
where dust will collect. Over time, this will impair the functionality of
the drive, and it also provides a route for dust to enter the PC case. Not
that most people have cases that otherwise eliminate dust, but the more dust
going in, the more often the electronics (and especially the heat-sinks and
dissipaters) need to be cleaned off.

There are some people who know for a fact that they will use a floppy drive.
For everyone else, today there is no good reason to have one.

Pete