Memorex 1.44MB USB Floppy Drive (Black) Review

I got a Memorex USB floppy drive locally and the box is slightly different, but it is probably the same item.For the record, the part number on mine is 3202 3239.With that caveat, I would say that this drive is quite nice (assuming the one shown here is identical).Mine has a built-in USB cable, about 2 foot long.It was recognized without trouble by Windows XP.And the best thing is that it is fast in both reading and writing.While I have not done a careful comparison, I would estimate it is maybe a 2X.I can at least say that my unit is NOT one of those slow internal floppy drives that goes click, pause, click, pause, as it glacially writes a large file, nor rrrwww, click, rrrwww, click as it tries to seek to the file allocation table when accessing multiple files.It acts much more like the 4X floppy I once used in a Sony digital camera (perhaps the speed improvement in this USB unit is simply a result of the USB channel the data goes through compared to the old ribbon cable port on built-in floppy drives...).
The two minor negatives I can think of are that it is a little loud and Windows refused to dismount it when I selected "safely remove hardware" from the task-bar.The former is not an issue in my application and I solved the latter by just pulling the USB cable after waiting for all activity to stop.A few tests of using it again showed that I had not upset the driver.It worked fine.
In summary - it is very capable and I plan to buy another soon for work since we have lots of expensive test equipment that writes screen captures to floppies and I fear that floppies are not long for this world - so I'm stocking up now :-)

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