This is an external floppy drive for HP Omnibook. You can use this drive as part of a home office, so that you don't have to keep switching drive modules when at home. This module... more
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Type: Floppy disk, Floppy Disk - 3.5" x 1/3H, Floppy Disk - 3.5", Floppy Disk - 3.5" Slim Line, Floppy Disk - 5.25" x 1/2H, Floppy Disk - Ultra Slim Line
Capacity: 1.44 MB, 1.2 MB
Media Type: Floppy Disk - 3.5", Floppy disk, Floppy Disk - 5.25"
Average Seek / Access Time: 80 ms
Expansion / connectivity
Connections: 1 x storage - floppy interface, 1 x storage - floppy interface - 34 PIN IDC, 1 x storage
Compatible Bays: 1 x front accessible - 3.5" x 1/3H, 1 x front accessible, 1 x front accessible - 3.5", 1 x front accessible - 3.5" Slim Line, 1 x front accessible - 5.25" x 1/2H, 1 x internal, 1 x internal - 3.5" x 1/3H
Interfaces: 1 x floppy interface - 34 PIN IDC, 1 x floppy interface
Manufacturer's product description
This is an external floppy drive for HP Omnibook. You can use this drive as part of a home office, so that you don't have to keep switching drive modules when at home. This module plugs directly into a floppy drive port on the notebook. Unlike some external floppy drives you do not have to tie up you parallel printer port when you want to use your floppy.
Advantages: Quick, Easy, Reliable, Small, Fits into any pocket or bag Disadvantages: Faded out use lately
...floppy's
- No driver needed for Win ME/XP and MAC
Specification:
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Capacity: 1.44MB
Media Type: FloppyDisk 3.5
Interface: USB
Conclusion
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If you're looking for an external floppydrive then I would definitely recommend this one. Simple, easy, small and quick which all anyone could ask for. What else could you want from a product like this? I have found it very useful since I bought it however I have found there is not such a need for them lately since CD's and DVD's are used much more and floppydisks have faded out of the picture more and more.
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Advantages: Small and compact Disadvantages: Breakable and horrible colour
...Hiya sorry about the boredom about these floppydisks first the imation 3 1/2" floppu disks and now its those pesky 3M's.
Right i am sorry to say that my other batch of imation floppydisks have run out. So i phoned my supplier and i was informed by the lovely lady called charlie that they had run out. So she did suggest i try the new 3M pack of 10 floppies.
Right onto the product in hand:
These are the worst floppydisks i have ever purchased, the colour black is the worst ever but i must agree that floppies are the same as any other floppies.
These floppydisks are not pre-formatted so you would need to format them yourself which is really time consuming, especially if you have a really important report due in the next day for the bank as i did.
These floppies are not as good as the Imation series as all of these disks...
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Advantages: Compact Disadvantages: Small 1.44MB storage space
...*UPDATE TO GET MORE VIEWERS 25/10/2005*
NOTE THIS IS ABOUT ALL FLOPPYDISKS - NOT JUST THESE ONES
Floppydisks are compact
Floppydisks were good in the 1980's
However floppydisks are not very useful unless you want to transport very small files
Most, if not all floppydisks have a 'massive' 1.44MB storage space (1.37MB formatted)
The speed of writing on the disk is ridiculous - taking up to a minute or more to transfer 1.37MB of files onto the disk, and the write enable tab can easily be removed or broken, as well as the metal protection cover can also easily be broken off.
Reading from the disk is also slow taking many seconds to read any file, even a 20KB word document, and the data on the disks are likely to get corrupted.
Floppydisks are very easily damaged and become unusable, even after formatting the disk...
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