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

I previously gave this device 3 out of 5(see below), subsequently the suppler contacted me and sent me a replacement. this worked perfectly. Couple of points to remember, it won't read 720K floppy disks, whe you eject the disk and insert a new one you need to click on the floppy drive to refresh the explrer window. Other than that this one works perfectly. - the previous drive must have been faulty "Connected to the PC (Win 10) ok, and appeared as drive a: Out of 10 floppy disks read three of them, and I could transfer files, however when you managed to get the disk out (Yes it needs pair of tweezers) and inset the next one it doesn't read it. Refresh doesn't work, you have to unplug the drive and then reconnect to get it to recognise that a new disk has been inserted"

This worked with both XP and Win-11 PCs. The only issue was that the drive continually started and stopped even when no floppy was loaded. This issue also applies to the similar internal floppy drive as they both have the same/similar circuit board.

When my old computer died and I found that modern computers have no time for floppy discs I thought that years of research had been lost forever. Then I came across this product and decided I had nothing to lose by trying it. It worked perfectly and I can only endorse what earlier reviewers have written. Not only will it retrieve your old data but it will also allow you to to continue to store your information on floppies. All in all this is a great product at a very modest price. Forgot to add that I agree with an earlier writer - it comes with a reasonable length of cable!

Like others I found that it would not read preformatted disks which already held files. When I first attached it to the PC Win 7 Ultimate 64bit immediately recognised it as a Mitsumi USB UFDD 061M USB Device and installed the drivers. However, thereafter it all went downhill! The drive started to "chatter" making the most awful racket as if there was already a disk in it. Put in a disk ... after a few moments of trying to access the files ... it said the disk was unformatted. Got another disk ... one from a recognised sofware/hardware vendor ... same again!!! Dusted down my old DELL VOSTRO 4600, set it running ((WINXP (32 bit) plugged the CSL Mitsumi into it ... drivers got installed, but disks read as unformatted again. As my VOSTRO already had a 3.5 inche drive I tried my floppies in it .... no problem both disks were read and I could read files and run applications. All during the process the drive would run as if trying to read disks even if there was no disk inserted!!!! Apart from NOT reading the disks the drive acted erratically, sometimes being silent awating a disk to be inserted, but generally NOT performing as it should and being NOISY when it should be just sitting waiting on a disk.

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.

Worked fine, straight out of the box. It's worth knowing that external drives like this don't register with Windows Disc Management, so file recovery software won't work with them. For general read / write functions they're fine. Some of these drives recommend that you plug into a USB port at the back of the PC (directly into the backplane) rather than plugging into the front, because of power requirements. I found no problem with either front or back USB ports. The default driver in Windows will handle the drive, although a specific driver is available online.

Excellent usb drive allowing me to still use all my old floppy disks.

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.