Smoothest, quietest and most reliable floppy drive?

[StattlichPassat]

My Mitsumi drives me nuts with the write/format sound- is this going to be inherent with all floppies or is there a nice quiet one that's available?

 

[MichaelD]

Do you use floppies all that much? Are there actually files out there smaller than 1.2mb? j/k.

They all make noise, dude. Floppy's a floppy a floppy. Mitsumi/Teac/Sony....it's a floppy!!!!!

I'm sorry you feel that your floppy is sloppy, and makes noise like and old jalopy.

But you can be hoppy, and poppy your flopppy, then maybe it won't be so sloppy.

 

[DeRusto]

Originally posted by: MichaelD
Do you use floppies all that much? Are there actually files out there smaller than 1.2mb? j/k.

They all make noise, dude. Floppy's a floppy a floppy. Mitsumi/Teac/Sony....it's a floppy!!!!!

I'm sorry you feel that your floppy is sloppy, and makes noise like and old jalopy.

But you can be hoppy, and poppy your flopppy, then maybe it won't be so sloppy.

You can be hoppy?? Poppy your floppy?? Well, whatever works for you.

Seriously, though.. I'm pretty sure all floppies out there make a lot of noise.. you could always completely wrap it in sound dampening materials when you are read/writing from it.

 

[MichaelD]

I had originally put "happy" but it didn't rhyme w/floppy, so happy became hoppy. "Poppy your floppy" doesn't sound right at all....I realize that now. I mean "poppy" as in "strike" or "hit" or "pop" as in "I'm gonna pop you one!"

NFGTI, maybe your floppy is just old and the bearings are worn out. Spend $10 and buy a new one if it's that important to you.

 

[StattlichPassat]

ROTFLOL!!

 

[StattlichPassat]

Alright- maybe I'll get a new Sony. My friends have Sonys in theirs (I built their rigs) and they're noticably quieter.

 

[Treripica]

When I built my dream machine two years ago, I opted for a name brand(sony), floppy drive. It's much, much quieter.

 

[StattlichPassat]

Awesome, thanks.

 

[JellyBaby]

Another vote for Sony.

 

[Dug]

Don't they make those silent drive enclosures for floppies? Like for hard drives. I think they're only like $60, but well worth the silence you get for those 15seconds of transfering files.

 

[eplebnista]

I prefer TEAC.

My $.02,
eplebnista

 

[MWink]

I don't like Sony floppy drives. They stink (literally).

 

[StattlichPassat]

How so? You've gotta give reasons why, bud, or you're just crapping in the thread.

 

[BD231]

Samsung make the best floppy drives IMO. VERY quiet.

 

[FrancesBeansRevenge]

I just bought a new Teac floppy (black faceplate) for my new rig and was startled by how quiet it was.
Of course for years I've only used floppies ripped out of old systems, etc so maybe all newer named brand floppies are quiet.

 

[NateSLC]

One more vote for Sony. The Mitsumis I have used are loud.

 

[bigboxes]

I have a sony fdd and it is very quiet. Much quiter than my previous floppies.

~box

 

[Dennis Travis]

Sony is the quietest floppy I have ever used. The newer Teac's are good too. I hate Mitsumis.

 

[RalfHutter]

I'm kind of a floppy fan but I don't like noisey ones. I've tried them all and the Sony's are by far the quietest.

 

[MWink]

I don't like Sony's because they stink. I've used a few of them and the disks come out smelling really bad. It smells kind of like burning rubber (I guess).

I don't recommend Mitsumi or Panasonic if you want quite. I guess your best bet would be Teac or maybe Samsung (I've never used one).

 

[RaynorWolfcastle]

Originally posted by: MichaelD
Do you use floppies all that much? Are there actually files out there smaller than 1.2mb? j/k.

They all make noise, dude. Floppy's a floppy a floppy. Mitsumi/Teac/Sony....it's a floppy!!!!!

I'm sorry you feel that your floppy is sloppy, and makes noise like and old jalopy.

But you can be hoppy, and poppy your flopppy, then maybe it won't be so sloppy.

<seinfeld> it turns out that Poppy is a little... sloppy </seinfeld>

My Panasonic is loud but I hardly ever use it, so I don't care

-Ice

 

[Bovinicus]

I can't believe a thread about the quietest floppy drive has drawn this much attention.

 

[IQJUMPuw]

My vote goes for Samsung. Simply the best.

 

[McCarthy]

always liked Teac myself

 

[flood]

what if plextor made a floppy drive?