The Gotek drives are available on many shopping sites but be aware that they may not be original or may contain different firmware and be sure to check that the drive is compatible with your system. It's very apparent how useful these drive emulators are for a wide range of equipment, not just computers. Probably the most well known floppy drive emulator is the Gotek type which I'll link to here for the official home page: Since the floppy disk images are stored on modern storage it's easy to transfer virtual disks to and from PCs and make backups.
#GOTEK FLOPPY DRIVE EMULATOR AMIGA SOFTWARE#
The good news is that we now have floppy drive emulators, which are small devices that use a flash drive or SD card to emulate not just one floppy disk but hundreds! This means we can store lots of software (such as the entire catalogue of a computer system) on modern storage (SD card/flash drive) while being compatible with the old computer's floppy disk interface. Unfortunately, floppy disks tend to be quite unreliable and the drives themselves need maintenance, which can be expensive and replacement parts can be difficult to source. However, there are still individuals that have computers that make use of floppy disks with retro computers being a good example. Floppy disks are low capacity (around 1MB depending on the type of disks and how the data is stored) and can easily be damaged by heat, physical force and magnets. As of 2020 floppy disks and floppy drives are not something that are commonly seen as we have moved on to far smaller, more reliable and higher capacity types of non-volatile memory, with flash memory leading the way.
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