BYTECC BT-146 All-in-one Internal USB 2.0 3.5" Drive Bay Card Reader w/ Floppy Drive

Pros: 5 stars, not for best or fastest, but because it does exactly what it advertised it would. Plugged right up, works fine with SDHC, MS, USB and floppy so far. The body of the device is a somewhat flexible plastic, and the conveniently placed holes took the screws I put in to secure it quite nicely.

Cons: Minimal cognitive skills are required to purchase the proper unit for your machine. Avoid this media reader if you do not have the intelligence to recognize an MFM-floppy cable from a USB cable in a photograph, or be prepared to RMA like the others.

Overall Review: It should also be noted that floppy disks inserted into a floppy drive, do not typically initiate the autoplay pop-up, and may not even show up in the basic explorer menu. You actually have to click on the [Computer] icon and then select your floppy from the menu panel to the left. I really hate to add my name in here behind all those ahead of me, who were not quite sharp enough to notice the MFM-floppy slot on the back of the reader, and the quite obvious cable in the pictures. Someone needs to point out the obvious though. Shame on them for wasting Newegg resources to RMA for their error, and by this raising Newegg overhead and ultimately, the cost of my next purchase.

Pros: The floppy was needed to flash bios on motherboard. I installed the drive and it worked perfectly in Win7 64bit.

Cons: Wish it was in 5.25 case so I could install it in my pc case. But that's not really a con.

Overall Review: I had to go into the mother board bios to set the floppy to active and 1.44mb setting. Other than that it was a breeze to set up. I include this information for anyone who may think the drive doesn't work, check your bios settings!

Pros: It Reads All the cards I tested it with perfectly. It Has An Extra USB which is nice. Unlike other AiW Drives, this one will plug directly into the mobo usb slot. It's Fast It came with a PATA Cable.

Cons: The Constant Bright White LED. The Floppy Drive is somewhat Faulty. Driver Software is confusing. The SD Card doesn't plug all the way in. The Floppy Eject button can come off if pulled.

Overall Review: I tested this drive with 5 Windows Formated Floppy Drives. The First one worked, but the other 4 weren't read at all.

Pros: it is what it states however item was fast and well pkg returned and credited

Cons: not for USB internal for floppy uses floppy cable I wish these type of items would state it in there listing ...

Overall Review: still looking for USB internal floppy drive not one with floppy cable

Pros: Two devices in one bay.

Cons: Floppy part doesn't work. I have yet to get a floppy to read in it. I've tried the same floppies in other drives and they work flawlessly. I'll replace this one with a different brand since I only have one bay. Cards load upside down. Small eject button for floppy drive. It only assigns one driver letter for your cards.

Pros: Slick combination to use up only one drive bay. Fast transfers from memory cards.

Cons: Floppy drive. Drive door broken on arrival. (Big deal, right? None of the card reader slots have doors. Still it's supposed to be there and working.) 3.5" disks read intermittently. Short flat ribbon cable for floppy drive. USB header cable not that long either - (it is hard wired into the drive not a socket on the back of the drive.)

Overall Review: Short cables could be an issue depending on your case and MOBO layout. (Might as well plan on getting a round FDD cable of the proper length.) Card reader is quick, and floppy drive is there for those times when things have degraded to the point of needing to use a bootable floppy. Trouble is will it work when I need it most? I'm not ready to chunk this yet - because of the card reader.

Pros: floppy drive seems to work.

Cons: Doesn't work most of the time on card reader. I would send it back but my time is valuable. I have learned not to buy any of their products again though. And I tested it on 3 different computers, so it is pretty certain, and a huge waste of time bothering with it.

Pros: Try to install the card reader screw holes does not match up with the holes of my case. Had to take the metal case off the card reader to fit it in the my case and the screw hole has no threads in it.

Cons: could not do anything with it but RMA back to the vendor