flopy drive

fly442 · Jan 5, 2004

what is a real good brand of flopy drive

Breadfan · Jan 5, 2004

Teac's and Mitsumi's are old favorites, NEC's aren't bad, but personally I've been using Sony floppies for the past few years. I've yet to have one die, but have had some Teacs and Mitsumi's die prematurely.

Some say "it's a floppy, who cares!" but I take care to pick out the Sony's...9 bucks just like the rest, but IMO they work well.

PiMpShiN · Jan 5, 2004

I could also have to say the sony one. Its great quality at a low price.

CamH · Jan 5, 2004

Floppies?! We don't need no stinking floppies!

I've got something I ripped out of an old HP. I like to keep it in my bin of computer parts, though.

Susquehannock · Jan 6, 2004

Like it or not, the floppy is still the quickest way to
flash your BIOS.

In the past I have used NEC, Teac, and Mitsumi floppy drives
and all the NEC were quite noisy with the Teac not far behind.

For my new Black Panther rig I bought the Alps brand
drive. It's by far the fastest and most quiet floppy
I've ever owned. I'd highly recommend it.

Alps Black 3.5inch Floppy Disk Drive = $11 delivered from NewEgg

Best of luck!

CamH · Jan 6, 2004

Susquehannock said:
Like it or not, the floppy is still the quickest way to
flash your BIOS.

Most of the time nowadays you can flash your BIOS from inside of Windows. No need to use a floppy.

Cjwinnit · Jan 6, 2004

CamH said:
Most of the time nowadays you can flash your BIOS from inside of Windows. No need to use a floppy.

Against my advice my mate tried that. Little did I know, he had SystemWorks running in the background. Took ages to undo the damage....

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