Neither my stationary machine nor my laptop has a floppy drive, and I don't really miss such drives. As far as reliability for 1.44meg floppies on the pc goes, I have mixed experiences (always took TWO floppies with the same contents with me when I needed to transport something that fitted onto a single floppy, just in case one turned out to be unreadable)
On the other hand, I still have about a hundred of the old 5,25" floppies I use in my old Commodore gear: The Commodore 1541 floppy disk drive has the dubious distinction of being the slowest floppy drive ever, at 250-300 bytes per second. Besides, it only stored roughly 150 kilobytes per disk. But this thing "ate" just about any type of floppy so long as it had the standard 5,25" form factor; single or double sided or density, hard or soft sectored, the 1541 "ate" it. And it was far more reliable than the pc's 3½" floppies: Not counting deliberately made underhand tricks with read errors code 21, I have had maybe 5 incidences during 10 years of obsessive-aspie-style usage where a floppy failed me for "no reason"...!
