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Server Installation Timetable
The following timetable is provided as a guide only. The installation of your server should take 2 working days but there will be occasions when problems occur which will delay the technicians moving on to the next school. If this does happen the school immediately effected will be informed and changes will be made to this timetable - so please visit this page regularly to keep up to date with the progress of this project.
The good old floppy disk was the traditional way to copy files onto portable media, but all the evidence shows that soon the floppy will find its way into the museum of short-lived technology. The fact is that FDD is doomed. Five-and-a-quarter floppies have all but disappeared: 3.5" disks won't be far behind.
FDD is now very old technology, designed for the file capacities of the early 90s. Twelve years ago, the hard disk drive in your average notebook was 12MB; today it's 2500 times that, at some 30GB. Furthermore, integrating floppy functionality adds weight and volume and, by way of compensation, some notebook manufacturers have installed lower capacity batteries... not a constructive way to tackle the problem.
Meanwhile, there are new alternatives to floppy disks, with important benefits in terms of cost, weight, performance and impact on the environment. Among them is the 16MB Universal Serial Bus device. With data transfer rates of up to 480m/bits a second, the USB 2.0 is also the industrial standard connector for digital cameras, printers and optical devices. It's small, easy to carry and each offers the equivalent in storage to a box of ten 3.5 floppies." - from Dell @ School flyer.
