Got a Floppy Disk?

Advantages: Quick, Easy, Reliable, Small, Fits into any pocket or bag
Disadvantages: Faded out use lately

...on the move as well as easy to fit and store on the move with no extra cabling which could possibly get tangled and cause problems and aggravation. Design ********** At only 280g I consider this drive to be very light to carry around with me. The actual dimensions are small and slim making it easy to fit into a pocket or bag as can be seen below:- Width - 10.3cm Depth - 14.2cm Height - 1.7cm Price ******** When I bought this a few years ago I paid in the area of £35 for it however if you look on the internet for this external floppy drive you will be able to find it been sold for an average price of about £20. Main Features **************** - Low noise, due to high quality materials - Hot swappable. No need to restart - Simple connection via USB cable - USB Bus powered. No AC adapter needed - Supports 720 KB and 1.44 MB...

burns2007 12.08.2008 · Read review
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Review of Freecom Floppy disk drive 1.44 MB

3M 1.44Mb Floppy Disks. Yes thats another one.

Advantages: Small and compact
Disadvantages: Breakable and horrible colour

...Hiya sorry about the boredom about these floppy disks 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 floppy disks 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 floppy disks 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 floppy disks 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 are...

Sexy_Young_God 22.04.2004 · Read review
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Review of 3M Floppy disk 1.44 MB

Whats a 3 1/2" floppy?

Advantages: Colourful
Disadvantages: Break too easily

...I would call these Imation 1.44Mb floppies. I recently brought these from my local Argos store in Hastings as my office equipment supplier said that i place my order too late for next day delivery. I came across these floppy disks in my catalouge near to the PC pages and said that all of the other packs of floppy disks have the same amount of space which is currently 1.44Mb of storage but these ones have colour co-ordination to them and the others have not. I asked the lady at the help desk and she said that the only thing about these ones is that colour coded ones are easier to identify so you wont need to bother about looking at the label ever again. OK i said i will take those please, Only to find out when i got back to the office there were 2 of each colour: Blue, Red, Yellow, Green and Lime. a 10 pack in all. So when i got...

Sexy_Young_God 17.04.2004 · Read review
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Review of Imation Corp. Floppy disk 1.44 MB

Anyone For MF2HD

Advantages: I Get Them For Free
Disadvantages: Low Storage, Easily Lost

...of the 1.44MB floppy is still a long way off. Even though the amount of data storage they can store is limited and the fact that most computers controling machines on factory floors are connected to local area networks. the reason the floppy is still surviving is reliability, and that people trust them as a storage media. I have never had any problems with loosing data on a Maxell MF2HD floppy disk and that is the most important factor in choosing them next to the fact that I can get them for free from stores....

Champ666 28.07.2004 · Read review
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Review of Maxell Floppy disk 1.44 MB

Panasonic Floppy disk drive

Advantages: Very reliable
Disadvantages: none

...One of the best floppy disk drive makers in the business. I have never had any problems with this make of floppy disk drive since I have been using them. Have fitted this make of floppy disk drive in every machine I have built for my self and for my customers for around the last four years and don’t think I have had one returned to me that is not working. Have tried all the other makes of floppy disk drives and have had problems in one way or another with them some. The key to all good floppy disk drives is that the heads are regularly cleaned to keep them in good condition.....

robbailey 02.10.2000 · Read review
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Review of Floppy Drives

A dead storage medium, you could think.

Advantages: You can need it several times
Disadvantages: only a few spaces

...not very recommendable, because black is on black not so mad. Handing = The disks are very simple to use. One pushes it into the drive assembly, presupposed one has one, and marks the data, which one wants to copy. Now there are several possibilities the data to bring on the disk. 1. you click with the right mouse button to a marked file and click on sending on and then on floppy disk drive. Then the data are overacted on the disk. 2. You mark the data and open a second window, and draw the files into the floppy disk drive. 3. You mark again the desired data and press at the same time "Strg" and "C". Then you go into the floppy disk drive and press "Strg" and "V". Then the files are copyed again on the disk. The data are overacted very fast. For 1,4 MT one needs at the most 25 seconds. There goes thus completely...

11071984 01.05.2006 · Read review
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Review of Verbatim Floppy disk 1.44 MB

The disk of the 1980's!

Advantages: Compact
Disadvantages: Small 1.44MB storage space

...*UPDATE TO GET MORE VIEWERS 25/10/2005* NOTE THIS IS ABOUT ALL FLOPPY DISKS - NOT JUST THESE ONES Floppy disks are compact Floppy disks were good in the 1980's However floppy disks are not very useful unless you want to transport very small files Most, if not all floppy disks 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. Floppy disks are very easily damaged and become unusable, even after formatting the disk...

pcman18 29.04.2004 (25.10.2005) · Read review
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Review of Imation Corp. Floppy disk 1.44 MB

simple, effective; but limited storage

Advantages: Small, effective, easy storage
Disadvantages: small capacity of storage

...3 1/2" floppy discs have been around for a long time. These discs have provided us all with simple and easy storage for a wide range of files still around today. Despite this, they only hold small amounts of storage compared to the different types of storage devices around. Floppy discs have provided lots of information at quick disposal for all types of computer. This ranges from the desktop pc on the market today, all the way to early computing machines such as the amega systems. Amongst these discs, Imation has provided fast access to a wide range of different files of information. There isn't a lot to write about on a floppy disc, but Imation discs are branded, and do have their own pro's and cons. Like most floppy discs, they hold 1.44 mb of storage. Discs have been known to hold as low as 720 kb and up to 2...

web_server_uk 31.07.2004 (07.08.2004) · Read review
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Review of Imation Corp. Floppy disk 1.44 MB

Floppy Drive 120Mb???

Advantages: Faster, greater capacity
Disadvantages: Not quite as cheap as traditional drives

...After many years of dealing with computers I must say very loudly TRADITIONAL FLOPPY DRIVES ARE DEAD! I did a couple of months ago purchase all the parts for a new PC witch I assembled myself and I must say that the experience I have had with floppy drives is that they are slow, unreliable and the traditional floppy disks are about the most fragile media you can get. I purchased one of these traditional 1.44Mb drives to begin with not thinking too much about it. It was a MITSUMI drive costing about £10. I took it home and put it in my new super fast pc and amazingly the little monster thing didn't appear to work... so I took it back and whilst I was at the store I noticed one of those newfangled LS120 drives from Panasonic and it stores a huge 120Mb on each of the new type of media and it is backwards compatible. So for £70 I took...

XJSGAV 02.09.2000 · Read review
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Review of Floppy Drives

WHAT A FLOP

Advantages: cheap, small, quick to format
Disadvantages: not enough capacity, not very durable

...using a floppy disk, you could store 1.44mb of removable data (not much in today’s terms). It is certainly not uncommon to find that Hard Disks today are quite easily affordable for around 40-60Gb of data, but the question is why have floppies not progressed in this manner? We have also seen that programs have gone from being stored on a few floppies, to being stored on multiple CDs (take the early Microsoft Office for example). Something that could replace the floppy in the future is the new 'Pen Drives', which have just come on to the market. If you haven't heard about them, then i will tell you what they are. Pen Drives are the latest in modern technology, developed to provide PC users with quick and easy access to removable storage data, which is connected through a USB port. The current data sizes come in 16, 32...

mdstone 26.07.2001 (06.08.2001) · Read review
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