Upcycled 3.5" Floppy Drive - Sony MPF-920 or Compatible

SKU: ADA6037 Brand: Adafruit

Before SSDs or USB keys or email attachments or SD cards or even CD-ROMs, there was the mighty floppy disk! These lil guys could store about a megabyte or...

$76.30 AUD, inc GST

$69.36 AUD, exc GST

Available with a lead time
Expect dispatch between May 05 and May 08

Quantity Discounts:

6+ $67.28 (exc GST)
12+ $65.89 (exc GST)

Before SSDs or USB keys or email attachments or SD cards or even CD-ROMs, there was the mighty floppy disk! These lil guys could store about a megabyte or so of files in their cool square shapes, using a magnetic circle that could be encoded to read or write your files as it spun. Wild, right? Well you might still have some diskettes around that need accessing, and you can't just press them to your forehead and decode the files by crainial-magnet-osmosis. Instead you will need a 3.5" Floppy Drive like this one!

Please Note: Floppy drives are not manufactured anymore which means any and all drives you find are leftovers from the 80's and 90's. And much like people from that time period, they have a few tattoos, scars and stories to tell. So these drives may have scratches, stickers, dents and chips. Models may vary but these tend to be Sony MPF-920 models. They are all tested to work reading a FAT12 formatted diskette.

Each drive can be plugged into a 34-pin IDC data cable and "Berg" 4-pin power cable. Even though the power cables have 12V, only 5V at approximately 2 Amps is required. You will need a controller on the other side, like a PC motherboard or a Floppy FeatherWing. These are non-trivial to use on their own, they definitely don't have USB connection, so please make sure you know what you're getting into if you pick one up! No diskettes are included.

Technical Details

Product Dimensions: 146.1mm x 101.6mm x 25.4mm / 5.8" x 4.0" x 1.0"

Product Weight: 403.2g / 14.2oz

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Home Lab>PC Power-ups

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