I'm looking for an external USB floppy drive to serve both as a replacement for the broken one in my old laptop and as a floppy drive I can carry with me.
Google and Amazon have helped me narrow down the selection a little, but I'm having trouble finding one that a) is reasonably priced (not over $30; floppies are really old tech) and b) supports both High Density (HD/2HD) and Double Density (DD/2DD) diskettes.
Many of the diskettes I have lying around are of the DD variety, and most drives I've found won't read them. (They only support HD/1.44MB diskettes.) The drives that do support DD diskettes don't seem to read HD diskettes.
I'd rather avoid getting two separate drives to read the different floppy types.
Oh, and a drive that won't fall apart after a few uses would be super awesome. I plan to continue to use it for lighting design work with ETC Express consoles.
Ideal Product:
A relatively inexpensive (under $30) but durable USB floppy drive that will read and write both Double Density and High Density diskettes.
