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SmartDisk (FDUSB-TM) (FDUSB-TM) External Floppy Drive
SmartDisk (FDUSB-TM) (FDUSB-TM) External Floppy Drive

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Price Range
$23 - $29

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.



SmartDisk External USB 3.5" Floppy Drive
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Written By
phungus

Date Written
Mar 27 2007

Summary

It may seem hard to believe these days, but there are still computer users out there who need floppy disk drives. At my work, we sometimes run into the need to use a 3.5” floppy, so we got some of these SmartDisk External Floppy Drives. Although...

Strength

Needs no power source or drivers

Weakness

Why don't people give up their floppy disks?

Bottom Line

If only the cable could be detached, this would be a five-star product.

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Defective manufactured hardware
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Written By
feaxmear

Date Written
Nov 18 2005

Summary

I received 2 FDUSB-TM2 drives from an insurance settlement. Right out of the box I received errors that the floppy was not formatted even though I had done a successful format on another computer. SmartDisk initially gave me the run-around about...

Strength

ABSOLUTELY NONE

Weakness

In my opinion, SmartDrive is a dishonest company.

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SmartDisk floppy drive needs much more than a USB port
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Written By
vanderjed

Date Written
Apr 12 2004

Summary

SmartDisk claims that its USB drive needs no drivers or any other software-just plug it in and it's ready to go(for Windows XP). Well, after I plugged in the drive I received a message stating that I would need a Windows XP installation CD with service...

Strength

compact

Weakness

unable to install without Windows XP CD with service pack 1

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