BYTECC Black 1.44/1.25 MB 3.5" External USB Floppy Drive Model BT-144

Pros: The drive works as expected in a Windows 7 system.

Cons: None

Overall Review: There isn't much else to say. It's an external floppy drive and works as it should.

Pros: Great device for a low price. power delivered thru USB so only 1 cord to deal with. length of usb cord is sufficient.

Cons: inside the drive there was fine dust. had to open the case and remove with a few q-tips. doesn't affect the functionality of the device, just an annoyance

Overall Review: the drive is a TEAC

Pros: Floppy USB Drive worked right out of the box with Windows Home Server computer. Great for when you only need floppy for SATA/RAID drivers on some MS installs. Windows Properties reports it is as "Sony Floppy Drive". Should be good quality.

Cons: None found in this short period.

Overall Review: Used for install of WHS on home-built and F6 worked fine. Not installing an internal floppy leaves a space for another hard drive on smaller cases and then you can put it away for when it's really needed and use it on any computer you own. Formatted and copied disks and it worked just like an internal floppy. Note that this is only drive that users reported as working with F6 driver installs for many MS install programs.

Pros: Works for XP f6 raid drivers.

Cons: sometimes takes multiple reboots before it reads.

Overall Review: Got this to install raid drivers on a laptop during a Windows Xp downgrade. Worked but sometimes it needed a couple reboots before the drive lit up and started reading.

Pros: newegg fast shipping, and great on the refund.

Cons: from the very start trying to read a floppy i would get "this disk is not formatted" error in winxp, but the disk was formatted and would work fine on any other computer. I could get around it by rebooting the pc with the bytecc usb hooked up but this only worked maybe 5 times until it wouldn't eject the floppy and then I could hear loose material in the bytecc drive.

Overall Review: been using a sony usb floppy reader which has been reliable.

Pros: Shows up as a device on multiple computers.

Cons: Doesn't read or write on any of the multiple floppies I tried, old ones and new ones. Won’t format either. The light comes on and it makes a noise. It might intrigue a cat for a little bit but even a cat would render it useless.

Overall Review: I wonder if a museum would want it. Probably not. It may not be old enough technology yet. It should be though. This technology hasn’t changed for years. No reason why a manufacturer shouldn’t have this mastered and have it so it would work for a long time.

Pros: N/A

Cons: N/A

Overall Review: I can't really say if this product is good or bad. But I can say that I ordered the first one. It was destroyed when I opened it from the retail packaging. MIssing the front door, it would not accept any disk at all. I took the time to RMA through Newegg which cost me $10 return shipping. Which was roughly half the cost of the drive its self. But to help me recover some old family photo's it was a little price to pay. When I recieved the RMA Replacment today. I immediately installed the drive again and went about taking the task of trying to read my disks. Much to my suprise the drive would not read my disks. I thought maybe it was just one or two but after about 10 disks later It still would not read any of them. A friend of mine in the process took one of the disks over to his house to read them on his Vista Computer. He had no problems. So I guess I'm stuck with drive now. It doesn't work, and its not worth it to send it back. If I did it would cost me another $10. I just can't rationalize $20 shipping on the cost of the drive itself. Bytecc has lost my business forever. Not to mention I pretty sure this drive corrupted 2 of my disks. Buyer beware, I hope others have better luck than I did.

Pros: Has been super reliable for me. It lives in my trunk (Arizona = hotter than supermodels) 24x7 and has never failed to fire right up every time. Has worked as a bootable floppy on every system I've tried it on. No funny business, just plug it in and it works.

Cons: USB cable is short? Who cares really... no cons.

Overall Review: I am a travelling IT support person and this kicks around the trunk of my car waiting for that random XP or Server 2003 system that needs drivers loaded from a floppy or maybe a legacy BIOS update. It has been flawless for probably 5 years now.