Chuanganzhuo Floppy Disk Reader, 3.5 inch USB Type A&C External Floppy Disk Drive, 3 1/2 Floppy Disc Reader for PC,Laptop&Notebook-Brushed Texture

I had the need for a floppy drive to make new data disks for a vintage computer. Newer computers no longer come this type of drive so the solution is this item here. USB connection and works great. I can copy files from my newer computer to a disk to be used in my vintage computer with ease. Brought me right back to the 90's.

I have played with this floppy disk reader several times now. I hook have hooked it up to my MacBook Air which is about 4 years old. I had a huge box of 3.5 disks from the late 1990s to very early 2000s that I was curious what was on them. I also have a bunch of them that I got when I had 35 mm film developed that contained photos. The Kodak branded disk drives all worked perfectly well using this external disk reader. The ones I got from SnapFish back in the day did not open. They were all corrupted. More than half of the other disks were unreadable, which if you read the enclosed instructions they do mention you may need programs to open some of the older files. I mostly opened the JPG files and uploaded those onto my photo stream to push into the cloud. There were old college papers on there that were written in 1998 that opened but the majority of them were all jumbled characters and such. No big loss since obviously no one cares about college English papers from 1998. I have two minor things that bugged me, but it may be just me. When the drive is "reading" the disk it is sort of loud. I imagine since we are so spoiled with modern technology, they were probably that loud back then. I honestly don't remember. The other thing is that every disk I tried to read I had to unplug and replug the drive into my computer. Not to mention that you have to "eject" each disk. Not a big deal, because I remember needing to do that with thumb drives and such. There is no on/off switch at all. The reader comes on when it is plugged into your computer. Oh I forgot to mention, they did provide me with a USB to C connector (as most things are C type now) which was pretty awesome. I have received many products that do not have this connector so I know what a pain it is when you don't know where one is or you can't find one.

Product worked fine. Instructions to overcome any issues was very good. Due to age of disks caused hangups and slowed down getting to the information.

I had some old floppies and wanted to check the. To see if anything important was still on them. This worked like a charm and I found old photos I’d forgotten about!

I finally got my floppy disks out to try this Chuanganzhuo floppy disk external reader and the reader did not disappoint. I put the floppy disk in, attached it to my tower and it was immediately recognized and I had the icon for Floppy A right on my screen. Of course accessing the disks took a long time, they are floppy’s after all. The directions say to plug this in directly into the motherboard USB ports but I have a good quality extension cable coming from the onboard USB port and plugging the floppy drive in that worked just fine. I haven't tried the USB to USB-c converter yet, it's not tethered so it could get lost.