6.8 Our Picks
Here are the floppy disk drives we recommend:
- Floppy Disk Drive (3.5")
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Any name-brand drive. These $15
drives are commodity items, and one is about as good as another. We
use whatever make happens to be most readily available or cheapest,
including (alphabetically) Mitsumi, NEC, Sony, Teac, Toshiba, and
probably several others we've forgotten. We use Teac
235HF units by choice, but that's probably just from
habit. If you have a choice, pick an FDD that uses a shrouded
connector for the data cable.
- Floppy Disk Drive (5.25")
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None. Although we keep one or two
around on general principles, the 5.25" FDD is obsolete except to
read old 5.25" diskettes, most of which were written so long ago that
they are now probably unreadable. As of June 2002, new 5.25" FDDs are
still manufactured and sold, but few vendors stock them and they are
now very hard to find. If you need to read an old 5.25" diskette,
contact your local computer store, which probably has a stack of
5.25" HD (1.2 MB) FDDs in the back room and will likely give you one
for the asking.
For updated recommendations, visit:
- http://www.hardwareguys.com/picks/fdd.html
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