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Nkcowboy

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OK, my floppy drive has just given up. I need to know what type of floppy drive I should get and please keep it also a cheap drive (although I haven't heard of an expensive floppy drive!)

UPDATE: ARE THERE ANY STORES THAT ARE PRESENTLY SELLING FLOPPY DRIVES AT A GOOD PRICE? BEST BUY< ETC?

 
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cocokrisp

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I don't think there is such thing as a best floppy drive but, uh, try any name brand, Teac, Mitsumi, Sony, etc. I'm sure they all work fine.
 
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Shmorq

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The only floppy drives I've ever heard of are TEAC and Mitsumi's. They're both under $20.
 
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GOPHER

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I just bought a Mitsumi at a computer show today for 11 bucks, buy the cheapest one you can find because there all basicly the same thing. :D
 
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jamarno

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All the brands seem to be fine, and TEACs are actually overrated, and several years ago their head alignment went out more than average (design essentially unchanged since then).
 
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Lifer
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Yes no such thing as best floppy anyway I`ve used Teac,NEC,Mitsumi &amp; they are all the same to me,but if you can get one of those 120mb floppy drives that would be cool.

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Soccerman

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Pretty Cool has a good idea..

if you have multiple floppies, and don't really use them to share files with others, an LS120 (though expensive compared to a 1.44meg drive) would be perfect! why? you can reformat your 1.44 meg floppies to 32 megs, and of course, you can read/write 120 meg disks.. these drives are actually pretty popular in my area. they're good for saving not so large files, without having to burn a CDRW.
 
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Nkcowboy

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Hey, Anyone got some time on their hands and could find me a floppy drive with shipping for under 20 bucks?
Thanks if you do, and good luck searching!! :):)
 
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Geocross

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yes massa suh!

geeze, if you have time to post on anand, you definitely can go to pricewatch and find a floppy
 
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Nkcowboy

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ARE THERE ANY STORES THAT ARE PRESENTLY SELLING FLOPPY DRIVES AT A GOOD PRICE? BEST BUY< ETC?
 
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EvilDonnyboy

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I got this IBM 233MMX that seems to have a real nice floppy. It seems to read/write a lot faster than all the other floppy drives I got which are panasonic/mitsumi and generic. Dunno who made the IBM floppy.
 
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SiliconVandal

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I'd get a TEAC for a basic reason. Mitsumi's are stamped...the whole casing is. A TEAC is actually seperate parts screwed together which makes a much better drive. There is a Mitsubishi &quot;Super Floppy&quot; drive which supposedly spins at a higher RPM and is faster. Never used one. They are like 25 bucks...

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RawHotSauce

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lol, why do you need a good deal on a floppy drive? Just go buy one. Well actually I think I got an OEM Teac for $15 at frys.
 
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Moltnrok

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Guyz-I just bought a Sony 1.44 last week from Z-Buy a week and a half ago.

$13.00 + Free shipping (mine was here 2 days later)
Limit 1

It's a nice brand name drive for about as cheap as you can get.
 
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Moltnrok

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Guyz-I just bought a Sony 1.44 last week from Z-Buy a week and a half ago.

$13.00 + Free shipping (mine was here 2 days later)
Limit 1

It's a nice brand name drive for about as cheap as you can get.
 
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jamarno

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Mitsubishi is the only brand of regular floppy drive that I would avoid because they've long had noise immunity problems (often could not use maximum length standard cable), and their 3.5&quot; units had an awful mechanism that would jam and cause one of the heads to scrape against the disk shutter, and then that head would scratch the disk itself.
 
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Lifer
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I've tried a couple different ones. As far as I can tell, they are all about the same. I currently use a Sony drive because it's quieter than the others.
 
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