Features:

  • Black Color.
  • Ultra slim & light weight case.
  • Interface: USB (Universal Serial Bus).
  • Plug & Play.
  • Fully USB powered, no power supply needed.
  • Data Capacity: 1.44 MB (formatted).
  • Data Transfer Rate: 1 Mbps.
  • Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7/8
  • MAC OS X
  • SBT-UFDB External USB 2X Floppy Disk Drive
God sent

Having not converted to the latest technology, finding something to read floppy disks is not easy. My oldest computer with a floppy just died and there I sat with information unable to retrieve. Google for query; Amazon for purchase. Faster than a zip disk, (oh yeah, I have those too!), I was opening the box for my office files life support. Plug in and ready to go. The only danger is that you can save things to the floppy disks. Rats, why would I do that? Now, the next action is to step-up and back up all files and information to the latest technology. But, is that CD's, external hard drives or thumb drives? Save it in the clouds with Carbonite? I guess the take home message is that you need a product to connect the old with the new. Floppy drives with USB ports. They are a God Send to the person walking down the road trying to keep up with technology.

Worked perfect out of the box.

Took this right out of the box and connected it to my wife's Win 8 laptop (upgraded from win 7). We put 2 disks in and nothing was on them. To validate that it wasn't an issue with the drive, I got out my old box of floppy's, last used 12 years ago. The first disk I put in, that I knew had data, worked perfect! All my old files were there. The 2 disks we thought that might have had files were just blank and ready for new data. Also checked it on my pc, Win 8 also, worked great. The little machine is very noisy. Never noticed how noisy a floppy drive was since it was in the tower of a pc. I even dropped it a foot down onto a table before using it and it was just fine, very rugged.

Handy item to have for a laptop without a 3.5 floppy drive.

My new laptop computer with Vista didn't have a 3.5 floppy dirve. I had a lot of files saved on 3.5 disks from my old computer and need an easy way to get them on the laptop. I plugged the drive into the USB port and Vista automatically recognized the drive, automatically set up the drivers, and it was ready to use. It does come with a disk and instruction book for loading drivers for other systems but the disk isn't needed for Vista. The USB cord is only 16 inches long, which could be a problem if you were connecting to the back of a desk-top computer, but you can buy a USB extension cable it needed. I loaded files from 33 disks on my first try and didn't have any problems. The price for this item was only about half of what some of the brand name floppy drives cost. Be aware that this item is listed as a Sabrent brand drive but the box it comes in is marked Teac Corporation. When you load it on your system it shows up as a Mitsumi FDD 061M USB device. I don't know what all that means but it's an excellent buy for the price and it works well.

Sabrent Floppy Disk Drive

This drive is everything the description says it is and more. I am very pleased with it. FYI; I followed the 6 page PDF instruction sheets to the letter including the time element to install it on a Win 7 Pro 64bit computer. The PDF instructions were available on the Sabrent website for download and printing. They are well written and easy to follow. I suggest having them ahead of ordering or installing as I did. Some reviews complain about only getting a popup stating the Floppy disk needs to be formatted. I got the same but closed the popup and continued and installation worked just fine. It's too bad the manufacturer elects to not include the instructions.

Even works with Windows 7 Professional 64 bit

I tried this with my new desktop computer that's running Windows 7 Professional (64 bit) -- it works. I bought this USB external floppy drive because the floppy drive in my old computer stopped working. That old desktop runs the Windows XP Professional operating system. The floppy a: drive would show in My Computer but would not work. When I plugged the USB external floppy drive into one of my USB ports, it showed in My Computer as Floppy b: drive. I was able to read and write to the floppy disks. It works.

Works on Mac OS 10.8 Lion

I tried a couple different external USB floppy drives before this one that said OS X compatible but didn't work with my Mac. This one worked perfectly -- plug-and-play. Quick tip for anyone looking to read very old MS Word files from old floppies (in my case circa 1990, originally created with MS Word on a PC): 1) Launch MS Word, and select "Open" from the file menu. 2) At the bottom of the Open screen, select "Recover text from any file" from the "Enable" drop-down menu 3) Select the old Word file you want to open That was by far the easiest method I tried to open, read, and save very old files without getting an error message.

Great little Drive

I purchased this drive from Amazon after returning the Teac I purchased earlier and returned as defective and cheap. The Sabrent worked perfectly right out of the box. Upon plugging it into the USB port of my mid-2010 iMac, the drive immediately read all of the different floppies I fed it faultlessly, and made exact copies on new, blank floppies. The copies worked perfectly. The Sabrent reads and writes perfectly. The Sabrent is packed and labeled professionally on both the box and the drive, which the TEAC was not. A good investment.

Great product

I connected the floppy disk drive into a USB port on my computer. I selected the computer option in start up and the disk drive popped up on my screen as A drive. I loaded an old floppy into the machine and it worked without any trouble at all. I have looked at about a dozen floppys and they all work without any trouble . This was a plug in and start process that couldn't have been any easier. I recommend this disk drive to anyone looking to view their old floppys and need an economical drive for them.

Worked out of the box

Have Windows 7 so did not see A: drive when I searched for it, it wasn't listed in the column with the C: drive , but after thinking about it put in a disk and it then showed up under 'Computer' - 'Devices with removable storage' and it worked great. Moved data onto my computer - and wrote back to the floppy every thing worked fine. I remember when floppies were the only removable storage and this drive is neither slow or fast compared to the 'old' days. Found that by going to 'Computer' - 'Devices with removable storage' and right clicking on the floppy drive one of the options is 'Format'. So have all the functions one needs. Have used this only for a month or 2 and so far no problems Would recommend this highly.

Does the job

This drive is quiet and fast for a floppy drive. Not needing it's own power supply is a great feature. If you have several devices that you connect, then disconnect from your computer that need their own power supply plugged into the wall, iit gets to be a messy headache keeping them sorted. I also like the 0plug and play, where Windows detects the drive and auto adds the requiired drivers. Mo muss, no fuss, and no bother. The drive presents a clean, quick and cost effecient means for moving files from one machine to another.

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