It is a standard Floopy Disk Drive. I have forgotten it's brand, maybe mitsubishi or NEC. It is about 3 months old. I don't say that it always fail, if u keep reinsert the disk or reboot your computer, The FDD can work. So I think it's not going to computer hardware heaven.
I'm using win XP pro, AMD XP 1500+ @1.5 GHZ, MB MSI KT266Pro266 DDR,Mem 512 MB DDR Kingmax,MSI TNT2, WD 40 GB 7200 RPM and of course the FDD.