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Re:Hacked Together 118 GB Floppy Disk by TazeTSchnitzel on Friday February 26, 2016 @08:26AM (#11181213)
Ooh, it'd be cool if you could do the same thing for USB drives. Perhaps some sort of claw or magnetic mechanism could hold the drive in place.
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Re:Hacked Together 118 GB Floppy Disk by putterson on Friday February 26, 2016 @01:58PM (#11183243)
This makes me wonder what those two holes in the shroud of USB A style connectors are for. After a bit of googling it looks as if they are to provide a bit of tension against removal. I'm sure you could repurpose them to lock the usb drive into a USB port.
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Re:Hacked Together 118 GB Floppy Disk by digi_owl on Friday February 26, 2016 @05:39PM (#11184835)
Some office ape is likely to rip the port out...
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Re:Hacked Together 118 GB Floppy Disk by mike_hock on Saturday February 27, 2016 @05:19AM (#11186701)
Then take the repair costs out of his pay check, and if it happens repeatedly, let him go.
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