Sony or Teac?

[piromaneak]

I just want to know which one is reliable and won't crap out on me. I figure sony since its, well a Sony. but I figure floppy drives have been around long enough that they would have nailed the design down by now heh

 

[cirocorby]

yes sony very good drive had one for 4 years now theonly part of the original compute

 

[piromaneak]

Why the hell are the Teacs 20 bucks but the Sonys are like 8 and some change?

 

[piromaneak]

anyone? bump...

 

[ribbon13]

Get a NEC or a Samsung floppy.

 

[daniel49]

even the oem machine floppies last forever just find a color that matches and a price you can live with. Unless you want to get real exotic and get a combo floppy/card reader??

 

[ribbon13]

http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=21-103-203&depa=0

http://www.monarchcomputer.com/Merchant...=PROD&Store_Code=M&Product_Code=170109

 

[Azndude51]

I have a Mtisumi, but I've never really used it so I don't even know if it works or not.......

 

[NinjaGnome]

just get a usb floppy so you never have to put one in your system again

 

[piromaneak]

im NOT paying 40 plus bucks for something i will rarely use AND will take up space on a desk... thats just ludicrous. Use the internal floppy controller provided on your mobo.

 

[Jotho]

I'm using a Panasonic drive. It serves its very limited purposes

 

[imverygifted]

i dont think u can go wrong, ive never had a floppy drive die on me

 

[Bar81]

in my experience the TEACs have been excellent and reliable.

 

[piromaneak]

ok thx all for replies...

 

[MrControversial]

You should go with the Sony's. I heard you can overclock them better. I was able to get my floppy to 550Kbps on air. No lie. I swear on my grandma's grave.

 

[piromaneak]

I didnt know you can overclock a stepper motor (eyes MrControversial errily)

nice try...

 

[MrControversial]

Lol...floppies...why won't they just DIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!! My system is floppyless.

 

[Arcanedeath]

As suggested a USB floppy is prolly the way to go, just an FYI until I switched to a black case and floppy I used the same Teac floppy drive in all my PC's from my orginal Pentium Classic up to my Current 2500+ @ 3200+ and it still works fine in a 2ndary PC (and it came out of an old 386 desktop orginaly) it's prolly 12+ years old and still kicking, oldest peice of PC gear I have that still sees regular use (for ghost backups)

 

[batmanuel]

Originally posted by: NinjaGnome
just get a usb floppy so you never have to put one in your system again

The problem with the USB floppies is that on a lot of motherboards you can't access them in the instances when nothing but a floppy will do, such as when you are flashing your BIOS or loading storage drivers in the Preinstallation Environment. Considering those are about the only things I actually use a floppy disk for anymore, I find it pointless to spend more money to actually complicate the task.

 

[Zepper]

. Why are Teac FDs 20.? Didn't see the ad, maybe external USB...
The Samsung floppy drives are good too. I also like the YE Data combo floppy/flash card reader from http://www.provantage.com - kill two birds with one bay...
. Or you can get a 2nd gen LS-120 drive on eBay. Blows any normal floppy drive away!

.bh.

 

[mooncancook]

sorry my post will not help you since i haven't own a floppy for years... but is there such thing as a "fast" floppy??

 

[kitkat22]

What do you need a floppy for again? If you really need one I would steal one off a used computer. I would even try associates or friends to see if they have a computer they no longer use and offer $1 for the floppy drive. Floppies are probably the most invincible part of a computer. For example, while working construction I noticed a bare case with nought but a floppy drive in it. It has been left out in the rain and humidity in Washington State, but the thing still worked when I salvaged it.

 

[CraigRT]

I just buy whatever brand the distributor carries.

Almost always Panasonic, never have problems.

 

[blackinches]

blackinches

 

[piromaneak]

wow never heard of the blackinches brand name...

you know the way you post reminds me of Team America... you know Matt Damon of F.A.G. who just ran around saying MAAAATT DAAAMOOON