Smoothest, quietest and most reliable floppy drive?

[holdencommodore]

I have found Teac to be much more quiet than the Mitsubishi/Panasonic. The Teac has also been very reliable.

Cheers

 

[Dennis Travis]

Flood,

If Plextor made a Floppy Drive everyone would go Gah Gah over it and even those that hate the floppy would probably buy one! Now a days more people seem to be going nutz over the Liteon CDR's so maybe Liteon should make a floppy!!! Anand could include it in the DREAM SYSTEM. Maybe it would cost like $50 since it's a Plextor!

 

[Sunner]

I hope neither Liteon nor Plextor defiles their good names by making a floppy.
Come on, this is 2002, let the floppy die as it should have a long time ago and buy a CD-RW

 

[Insane3D]

What's this "floppy drive" you speak of?

*cough*CDRW*cough*

 

[Keego]

When I did use a floppy drive 2 years ago.... I used a SuperDisk drive. they rock.

 

[onelin]

might as well contribute to this energetic floppy thread

If I recall correctly, the reason *I* had great dislike towards sony floppy drives is because the connector was ass-backwards for the ribbon floppy cable... meaning I had to go find one without nubs in order to use it (luckily I found one in like an old 386 in the basement...all my other ones had the notches and only went in one way) ... that is why some don't dig the sony that and whichever one is currently in my computer also doesn't work... and it may be the sony. but then again... _I DON'T CARE_ ...because I have 0 use for floppies as I network my comps and have a CDRW.

 

[ai42]

When I did use a floppy drive 2 years ago.... I used a SuperDisk drive. they rock.

I still use a SuperDisk drive even though I have no superdisks. 4x regular Floppy read/write! Oh YEA! And very quiet.

 

[japetto]

What's a floppy drive? Do they still make those?

 

[PliotronX]

I've tried Panasonic, Mitsumi, Sony, and Samsung floppy drives. Out of all of them I would rank the Samsung the highest. It may be placebo effect, but it does seem faster than average floppies, and I've never had one die on me. They also are about as quiet as the Sonys. I've had one Sony die after about four months and another Sony not even recognize disks. They were very quiet (when they worked) though. The Mitsumi and Panasonic drives were reliable, but very loud and the slowest of the bunch. These are my experiences though, and maybe the Panasonics and Mitsumis have improved since I've used them, so YMMV.

 

[Woodchuck2000]

Another vote for the LS-120 (superdrive.)
They're very quiet, and very fast. The only drawback is that they're a pain to use in dos mode. If you need to load RAID/SCSI drivers during windows installation then you must have a standard floppy.
They also use an IDE connector which could be a problem in a packed system.

 

[Mavrick007]

I like the Samsung as well cause it seems to be the fastest of the drives and it's fairly quiet too. Sony is quiet and would be my second choice but why would I need more than one floppy drive

 

[StattlichPassat]

Originally posted by: Bovinicus
I can't believe a thread about the quietest floppy drive has drawn this much attention.

I know! Whisky Tango Foxtrot?!

 

[StattlichPassat]

Ok, I'm going with Samsung- thanks guys! Sheesh.

 

[dullard]

let the floppy die as it should have a long time ago and buy a CD-RW

*cough*CDRW*cough*

That is all fine and dandy but quite a few of us still have/occasionally use older computers. At home I have one spare computer that is great for word processing - and thus requires files to be shared. Unfortunately its CD drive cannot read CDRWs and its motherboard cannot boot from a CD. At work I have 4 computers that are also unable to boot from a CD. Sure these 4 year olds are getting obsolete, but why spend a few thousand to replace them when they still do their job as good as the day they were purchased? If you can't boot from a CD you cannot do too much tweaking without a floppy. And it is these old computers that get a great boost from a little tweaking.

Spent $5 for a used CPU and you can double or triple their speed if only you had a BIOS update. Now where will I get one if it can only boot from a floppy and I don't have a floppy drive.

CD writing drives are still expensive as an upgrade for an older computer. Floppy disks are abundant and infrequently used - meaning they can usually be obtained for free. Floppies are much easier to use from within a program. Heck even with small files, floppies are faster than CDs. None of my clothing has pockets that easilly fits CDs when I go to from home/work/school - but they all fit a floppy. I can see no reason to get rid of them.