Why do Floppy disk ports still exist on PSU's?

[Darthjonathan12]

I was just looking at this article about a new 2000W PSU which is pretty cool (although unnecessary for me), but it listed all the cables that come with it as options and mentioned on it is 2 floppy ports on a brand new power supply. Why is this still a thing?

 

[USAFRet]

Because some people still use them.

 

[Winly]

I was just looking at this article about a new 2000W PSU which is pretty cool (although unnecessary for me), but it listed all the cables that come with it as options and mentioned on it is 2 floppy ports on a brand new power supply. Why is this still a thing?

Because some people still use them.

believe it or not, they come in handy once in a while. you never know if the solution to a problem is using a floppy haha.

 

[ko888]

If you're talking about the Super Flower Leadex Platinum 2000W SF-2000F-14HP, those two floppy diskette power connectors are only 4-pin Molex peripheral to 4-pin Berg (a.k.a. floppy drive power connector) adapter cables. They are included for full backward compatibility. You don't even use them in any modern system.

Modern motherboards don't even have a floppy drive controller on them.

 

[BertyFromDK]

Other devices than floppy drives also use this type of connector; for instance, i have a Creative sound card with a breakout box (Audio I/O Drive in Creative's terminology) which uses this type (1); also a 13-port USB hub that i have is using it (2).

Re 1: http://sishardware.com/imgs/a/b/f/r/d/creative_labs_sound_blaster_fatality_io_hub_x___fi_sb0250_pci_card_sb0350_p7665_1_lgw.jpg

Re 2: https://www.hardwarewebwinkel.nl/pi/inline-front-panel--13-x-usb-20-poort--525-inch-bay-33394a-inline/large/33394a1.jpg