CSL – Portable External Disk Drive – FDD – USB 3.0 for PC Laptop and MAC - Plug Play – 1.44 MB – Backup – BIOS updates – RAID driver - MIDI - 3.5“ USB External Floppy Disk Drive

Based on other reviews I wasn't certain that this would work with my Mac, but it has performed without trouble (I used a MacBook Pro 17" running OSX Yosemite 10.10.1. The drive appears well made and has a good clean white appearance.No instructions are included for Macs so here is what I did - pretty intuitive but may help others.1) Connect drive to a USB port (I found it worked fine running through a hub, but if connect to a USB port on the computer if you are having problems). No further installation is required.2) Insert a disk into the drive.3) The drive will spin up, mount the disk and read contents, a disk drive icon will appear on your desktop and will show as a new drive on your finder under DEVCES probably as 'NONAME'.4) Select this drive and you should see the files on the disk - access the files as any other drive. The disk will probably keep spinning and whirring all the time you have the drive mounted.5) Unmount / Eject the disk in Finder (or drag the icon on the desktop to the trash) BEFORE physically ejecting the disk from the drive.The drive is rather noisy when in use, and seems to keep the disk spinning all the while the disk is inserted. When a disk isn't in the drive it 'chirps' every couple of seconds, so I unplug it when I have finished.

Works as expected

For around £10 this has proved a practical buy. It is simply a drive in a plastic case that works as it should via usb and that is exactly what I was after. The plastic casing is solid and appears durable and disks load and eject (manually) without issue.I have used to read old 1.44 MB PC formatted disks and retrieved archived files without any problem. Also used on an old Imac G3 with similar disks. The unit powers down (disk stops spinning unnecessarily) when used with my Windows 10 PC which is good. But on the Apple the floppy needs to be ejected to stop spinning. Different operating systems having different ways of working no doubt.Be aware that It will not read/write disks formatted with the older Apple (beige-coloured Macintosh) 800 and 400 variable speed drives. This is not a criticism as these were very much of their time and reflected Apple's own original approach to floppy management (which they later abandoned in favour of the 1.44 format).So for the task of retrieving archived files in both PC and the newer Macs it has really impressed.

I recently purchased this external floppy disk drive and it has been a fantastic addition to my setup. It was easy to set up and use, and has saved me the headache of having to figure out how to transfer data from old floppy disks. The drive itself is compact and lightweight, making it easy to transport when needed. I also appreciate the fact that it doesn't require any external power source, as it draws power directly from my computer's USB port. Overall, I'm very pleased with my purchase and would definitely recommend this external floppy disk drive to anyone who needs to access old floppy disks.

Worked ok for a couple of days, reading old Windows disks and copying the files off. A bit unreliable at times but that may have been the disks themselves.Now though it has stopped working completely and does nothing at all when plugged in. no response, light, noise - nothing. Tried with and without disks that previously worked, several different USB ports and on a couple of different machines. Seems dead and it's going back.

The drive does what it needs to for me. It formats, reads and writes disks on Windows 10, and had no trouble with a disk written elsewhere.Mine won't eject disks reliably, so I often need a pair of needle-nosed pliers handy to help the disk out. It feels cheaply constructed, which is not surprising for the price, and probably is the cause of the ejection issues.As others have said in reviews, when there is no disk in the device it checks every second or so, which can be quite noisy, and gets annoying.

I'm running Windows 11, so before I started my PC I plugged it in, A Drive came up on file manager no problems, old floppies read no problem. My only concern was the box was not sealed and was not in a package, the delivery was pushed through my letterbox but I caught it before it hit the floor, I would emplore the vendor to package the device properly..

Very happy about this product it works with both mac and windows