AYNGWRNB ESYNIC 3.5" USB Floppy Drive 1.44 MB FDD Portable External Floppy Disk Drive USB Floppy Drive Reader Plug and Play for PC Windows 10 8 7 Windows 98 2000 Windows XP Vista Mac - White

I've already purchased black external floppy drive from here, and it works perfectly. I had to open it to see what's the exact drive model, and it was TEAC FD-05HG. No surprise it was working good. So I've decided to buy another one to get this particular slim floppy drive with a matching case to use it with my '90-s 8-bit computer. I chose the white color because it matches the computer case. But I was disappointed to find awful FUJITSU SS24DB floppy drive inside. I cannot use it with my old computer and it doesn't want to work properly with modern PCs nor Macs. It refuses to read 80% of floppies I have although previous one (TEAC FD-05GH in black case) doesn't have any problems.Both floppy drives seems to be pulled out of other systems because they show a lot of wear, but I'm really disappointed with the white one, because I cannot even return it now, and wouldn't be a problem if there was another TEAC drive inside instead of this terrible Fujitsu one.Update: changing my review to five stars due to immediate response from seller. I got a replacement drive instantly, and that one works extremely well. I don't know what the actual drive is inside (it has no markings), but I was able to reformat few diskettes that I thought were completely dead and unreadable by my first TEAC floppy drive. Thank you very much!

EDIT 2: I received the replacement unit the seller sent me (gratis, after reaching out!). This unit works fine; I can confirm it reads and writes both 1.44 MB and 720 kB. It detects as a Teac mechanism, for those that care. Legacy users take note -- while this drive will read and write 720 kB disks, it will NOT format them. (This is a common issue with modern USB drives... unfortunately, you'll probably need a "real" one if you need that functionality.) 5-star product and 5-star service. Thanks!EDIT: Amazingly, the seller reached out to me and offered to send me a replacement no charge. That's never happened before on Amazon. I'm changing my review to 3 stars, and will further revise as necessary when the new unit comes in.OP: I read good things about this model drive. I have a USB floppy which works, but only reads/writes 1.44 MB disks. I have an older PC I'm trying to exchange 720k floppies with, and this drive advertises that compatibility.Unit was recognized by Windows when I plugged in the USB, but that's about all the good I can say. The drive would not read any floppy, including known-good ones tested in other drives. Wouldn't write a floppy either, so it wasn't just a case of mis-aligned heads. Now, it may be mine was damaged in shipping (it was fulfilled by Amazon; the package was loosely packed and had been jostled a lot), but the box it came in was not compromised in any way.Exchanged it for the Black unit, which has performed flawlessly.

Since I found some old Floppy Disks in which I wanted the data off of them, I purchased the USB Floppy Drive. It does work with my windows 10, however the programs do not match. I was able to open the disk with my windows pad. This enabled me to copy and paste most of the data into a Word doc. And I can format the Floppy Disk for Windows 10 and it works! Yes, I would recommend this product, if you have a lot of Floppy Disks!

Works good!

I bought this floppy reader so I could finally see what was buried on four floppy discs my wife's late grandfather unearthed for her. At first, when I bought another brand, I didn't think I'd be able to read them. The reader wasn't entirely compatible with my OS, and it wouldn't even register that a disc had been inserted. Bust. I put it out of my mind about a year. Or thought I had.A few weeks ago, the idea to check out the discs came back to me, and I was determined this time to find a reader that would actually work. After a bit of research, I found this little bugger. It showed up two days later and started right up as soon as I plugged it in. Needless to say, I was excited. When the driver was done installing, I stuck a disc in and not five seconds later I had an old floppy file open in front of me as if it were a flash drive.Awesome product. If you're looking for a floppy drive that delivers, get this one. As for me, it gave me access to a few gems from my wife's childhood I would not otherwise have been able to have.

It doesnt work,i plug it in and it makes some buzzing sounds,flashes green for a second or 2 then nothing happens,says it is compatible with mac but it apparently is not,im not too happy...

I ordered this to access the photos on the old 3.5 floppy discs I had. When I plugged it into my laptop, it seemed to struggle a bit. I believe it needed more power to run it more efficiently, so it may perform better on a desktop. It did read the discs and I was able to get the photos, but it did take a couple tries on some of the discs. Still, not bad for $12.

I am tech savvy and tried everything to get to work on my Windows 10 computer, but no luck. A waste of money.EDIT as of 5/3/2020: I'm raising from 1 start to 2 since I do have it working on my new Macbook Pro. It seems to keep rotating no matter if there's a diskette inserted, so it's not well designed, but it does read media.

It's both Mac and PC friendly!

Wenn man noch Disketten verwenden will, bietet dieses Laufwerk dazu eine gute Möglichkeit - Hauptanwendung dürfte das Lesen noch vorhandener alter Schätze sein. Die Zugriffsgeschwindigkeit ist so, wie man es von dieser etwas altmodischen Technologie erwarten kann.

What a great service by the seller.......most of us have old valuable and sentimental pictures and may be music files stored on floppies from the "old times", when a 1GB on a hard drive was a big deal. As we progressed into 21st century of everything wireless and lots of storage, (my iPhone alone has 512 GB) all these floppies became obsolete. Thanks to this seller I was able to simply connect the external floppy drive to my laptop ( simple plug & play ) and transfer all my pictures without any problems. Item is very well described and priced in seller's listing and works great with iOS too. The whole transaction was smooth, with only two day delivery. Thanks again !!

Compré esta disquetera para ver si podía recuperar varias decenas de diskettes de finales de los 80 y los años 90 en los que tenía guardados datos y el código fuente de mis primeras aplicaciones desde mi Mac.El resultado ha sido espectacular, tan solo 2 diskettes fallaron y no pude recuperar todo, el resto lo tengo ahora en mi nube personal.

Lecteur de disquette acheté pour récupérer des données à sauvegarder sur DVD, les cartes mères actuelles ne sont plus prévues pour connecter des lecteurs IDE. Produit de très bonne qualité et couleur blanche agréable et cordon de la même couleur, facile à repérer quand vous avez plusieurs câbles USB sur un concentrateur. Aucun problème de mise en service, reconnu de suite sous Windows 10. Produit recommandé pour la qualité.