cheap external usb floppy disk drive?

xxMandyxx

hi i was wondering if anyone knows of any cheap external floppy disk drives?

i bought a dell computer which doesnt have one and also i dont think an internal one would do as the card readers in the bit where a floppy normally is.

every one ive seen has been around the £20 mark - is this expensive?

thanks for any help :beer:

Lord_Chris

Since external floppies arent particularly cheap, you have 2 options:

1) buy an internal floppy drive and replace the card reader (do you use the card reader anyway?)

internal floppy drive (aria.co.uk) £4.29

2) if you want to keep the card reader, you cold buy a floppy drive with a built in card reader: aria.co.uk £13.57

for some reason the external floppy drives i could find are a bit overpriced considering how out of date floppies are, so if i were in your position i'd take option 2... unless you dont use your card reader.

superjaggybunnet

You could get a new one from ebay for about £10

check this out

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/NEW-External-Portable-USB-1-44-Floppy-Disk-Drive-FDD-UK_W0QQitemZ230011378280QQihZ013QQcategoryZ31566QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Lord_Chris

lol... go with the ebay one unless you want the card reader + floppy together internally... Aria charge quite a bit for delivery so the internal one would end up costing the same as the one on ebay....

forgot to look at ebay *dur on my part*

xxMandyxx

thanks guys - i think ill probably go for one from ebay