Floppy Disk Reader 3.5 inch External USB Floppy Disk Drive Floppy Disc Reader for PC Laptop Windows 11/10 (Frosted Texture, 3.5 Inch)

Works great and meets all my needs

EDIT: seller explained to me that you must right click the windows 11 explorer and click "refresh" in order to update the contents of the device and read the data off the newly inserted floppy disk. Its also described in troubleshooting section 3 page 9 of the manual. Thanks!Does not work as expected. Here is how this works: If you insert a floppy disk ( lets call it A1 ) with data on it, read the data, then close the file explorer and remove the floppy disk, and re-enter the floppy disk drive on your computer ( windows 11 ) you will still see the data even though the floppy disk was taken out. In tech speak, I think the drive ( adapter ) stores a cache of the data of the previous floppy disk that was inserted. Furthermore, if you insert any further floppy disks ( B1, C1, D1, etc., etc. ,) - let's say B1 for this example, this disk will read the same data as A1 UNTIL you unplug the device, and plug it back in using the B1 floppy disk. Meaning, if you want accurate readings of multiple disks ( let's say you have a stack of floppy disks to go through ) - if you want to read all the disks, you have to unplug and plug it in each time, other wise when you are reading one floppy disk it will always read the data on the previous floppy disk inserted.Bad design. Doesn't work as expected but it is one of the only floppy disk readers on the market and once I figured out how to use it I was able to get the job done with a lot of time and effort. I feel sorry for the usb-c port on my windows 11 computer.EDIT: seller explained to me that you must right click the windows 11 explorer and click "refresh" in order to update the contents of the device and read the data off the newly inserted floppy disk. Its also described in troubleshooting section 3 page 9 of the manual. Thanks!

Reliable if a little loud. It read my old 3.5 diskettes like it was back in the 90s.

Was in need to transfer and save many 3.5" disks which contained picture from 1996. This drive did what it said it would do and what I needed. The instructions really helped for Windows 11. They also note that older 3.5" disks are a bit slower but it didn't really affect what I needed to do. Would definitely recommend this if you need it.

Worked perfectly on a recent computer running Windows 10. Any floppy drive will be noisy and slow in my experience.

The good - It is "plug-n-play". The bad - It is only able to read 1/4 of any of the files on the hundreds of 3.5 disks I have. I thought the files were corrupted and was going to delete them. It has trouble with JPG files of only 38kb in size. I doesn't like gif or video files and seems to choke on documents. I have images I took on one of the original digital cameras out there, the Sony Mavica. Luckily I found that camera in an old chest and it still works. And ALL of the images are fine, not one is corrupted. This disk reader is junk.

Works great. With proper software I was able to retrieve old files from late 90's.

I bought this to read about 10 floppy disk I saved from 90’s. Only 2 were readable. This is not the device’s fault. I repeated the test with smartdisk floppy reader with exactly the same results. The advertised life of a 3.5” floppy is 10-20 years. So you will find most are duds. The other problem is your operating system may not recognize the format. I had one Mac disk which Windows 11 is able to see but does bot recognize the format. Most disks I have is FAT32 so you wont have problems with those. The moral of the review is keep your expectations low when attempting to read 20+ year old floppy disks.