SmartDisk USB External Floppy Disk Drive (Titanium Color)

Product Description:

The New SmartDisk VST Titanium USB Floppy Disk Drive brings more functionality and versatility to your USB equipped Macintosh or PC computer. The drive reads and writes standard 1.44MB floppy disks and has a fast data transfer rate of up to 500kb/s. Plus, it's powered through the USB port, so no AC Adapter is needed. And the sleek, titanium design matches perfectly with the new PowerBook G4, as well as the Sony Vaio.
Product Details
  • Feature:
  • Reads and writes standard 1.44 MB floppy disks
  • Fast data transfer rate of up to 500 kbps
  • Powered through the USB port
  • Mac and PC compatible
  • Binding: Electronics
  • Brand: SmartDisk
  • EAN: 0769171003905
  • FormFactor: External
  • HardwarePlatform: PC
  • IsAutographed: 0
  • IsMemorabilia: 0
  • Label: SmartDisk
  • Manufacturer: SmartDisk
  • Model: FDUSB-TM
  • MPN: FDUSB-TM
  • PackageQuantity: 1
  • ProductGroup: CE
  • ProductTypeName: COMPUTER_DRIVE_OR_STORAGE
  • Publisher: SmartDisk
  • RemovableStorage: Floppy disk
  • Studio: SmartDisk
  • UPC: 769171003905
  • Warranty: 1 year warranty

Customer Reviews

Great for archiving your old data!2006-07-10
I bought this to use with my powerbook, and was able to copy off data from all my old 3.5" floppy disks. Worked great, even with really old disks, and with some disks where heat had degraded the data, I was able to mount them and then use a repair program to get them repaired enough to get all the data of. I transferred about 70 disks worth of data, and was only unable to mount one of them- most likely because the disk was too damaged.

Totally worth the $30 I paid when I bought this originally.
Do not buy this product2004-04-19
I bought one and it erased content on my disks. DO NOT BUY THIS DRIVE.
Plug & Play on MacOS X2003-05-15
I have used it on my PowerMac G4 running Jaguar OS X. It takes about 1 full minute to mount a floppy once the disk is inserted in the drive. After that, file transfers seem pretty quick (for a floppy, that is) and it works great.

Classic Mac users (old-timers?) like me are used to a floppy drive that ejects the disc when it is dragged to the trash, but this one has no eject motor, so you'll need to "give it the finger" on the handy eject button to eject the disk.

It has a sleek look and is nicely compact. It feels quite rugged, so it should handle roadtrips well with my iBook.

OS X - Mounts w/o drivers, slow.2003-03-13
Well, it is no speed demon but gets the job done. I plugged it into my Powerbook G3 (OS 10.2.4) and it took a while to mount. That's pretty much what I was looking for, I hate floppies, but my mom needs it to bring her virrii..ehhrr...documents when she uses the labs at the college she attends to.
trouble with an iMac, OS8.62003-02-08
This is not plug and play for an iMac, G3, running OS8.6. The main problem is that the documentation enclosed in the box and on the CD is misleading. It tells you to go to outdated web sites and download software that is probably on your machine anyway. It doesn't tell you to go to the SmartDisk website to download their latest driver. These drivers could have been included on their CD, but the CD is useless for Mac users. It took me two hours to solve the problem. My father, who is a novice user of this iMac, doesn't know what a driver is, and never would have been able to get this simple disk drive working. I'm sure there are tens of thousands of novice users of old iMacs who will have the same problem. So I give one star for their web site, which is well-organized, and one star for the hardware, which actually works after you spend hours downloading software.
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