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6.8 Our Picks

Here are the FDDs we recommend:

Any name-brand drive . These $15
drives are commodity items, and one is about as good as another. We
use whatever make happens to be most readily available or cheapest,
including (alphabetically) Mitsumi, NEC, Sony, Teac, Toshiba, and
probably several others we've forgotten. We use Teac
235HF units by choice, but that's probably just from
habit. If you have a choice, pick an FDD that uses a shrouded
connector for the data cable.

None . Although we keep one or two
around on general principles, the 5.25-inch FDD is obsolete except to
read old 5.25-inch diskettes, most of which were written so long ago
that they are now probably unreadable. As of July 2003, new 5.25-inch
FDDs are still sold, but few vendors stock them and they are now very
hard to find. If you need to read an old 5.25-inch diskette, contact
your local computer store, which probably has a stack of 5.25-inch HD
(1.2 MB) FDDs in the back room and will likely give you one for the
asking.

For updated recommendations, visit http://www.hardwareguys.com/picks/fddl.