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Pros & Cons
Cons
Every time it runs, it is so loud, it sounds like a garbage disposal running that is having a seizure. Buy something else and save your time.
This portable disk drive is not worth the money. The driver is 14 years old, and the unit identifies as a teac.
After formatting a disk, the drive needs to be unplugged and plugged back in. First plugged in errored tecavo.
Tried to open some files. The files read as if they were corrupted. Gives an error message when reading files on the floppy disc.
Highlights
Quality
Solid construction, easy to use and very convenient.
Works just fine, easy to use, plugged into the laptop and allows for viewing old diskettes.
I fired up a copy of dosbox (freeware) mounted the floppy drive and poof!
(driver issue)when i tried to update the driver it came up with an error along "drive is in memory"now you may be able to just ... Read More
Price
For the low price, i was pleased with its performance.
For the money this saved my day.
Shipping
Works great and thanks for the quick shipping
The product arrived quickly and once i pulled the broken drive door out of the front of the drive that would not allow the disk... Read More
Overview
- How are reviewers describing this item?
floppy, old, able, great and needed. - Our engine has profiled the reviewer patterns and has determined that there is minimal deception involved.
- Our engine has discovered that over 80% high quality reviews are present.
- This product had a total of 2,470 reviews as of our last analysis date on Nov 11 2024.
Helpful InsightsBETA
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
The files do not refresh automatically when a disk is inserted into the drive but selecting the drive in windows explorer refreshes the files contained on the disk
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Sometimes removing and reinserting the disk allowed files to be read when they had a read error the first time
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I had tried drive from another company a couple years ago that did not work
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
This drive is recommended if you have some old disks you want to copy
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
The product arrived quickly and once i pulled the broken drive door out of the front of the drive that would not allow the disk to be inserted it worked well
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
It is cool they send a usba to c converter but i didnt try it yet
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Works beautifully for mac but windows wanted to explode when i tried using it
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Was able to get a ton of old photos off a floppy disk dragged it right from the disk to my desktop
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