07-06-2020, 09:48 AM
There are a few current sources of NOS drives:
The going price for a NOS drives are about $20-$35. You should definitely not be paying $50 or more for a drive. Refurbished drives should be going for less. Floppy drives are wear and tear items --- unless I really trust that the drives were serviced by someone you trust, I really wouldn't consider them. Not in July 2020. Maybe things will get more dire in later years.
When buying NOS drives, look for the signature baby blue transparent bags and yellow tape that these drives were put in from the manufacturer. Sometimes there's a plastic shell that then they went into after that.
Hope this helps.
- Alan Computech has a wide variety of drives, including some NOS.
- eBay has a series of NOS drives as well. I found Sony MFP920-E's NOS. There's also SFD321B drives too. There are some new "pulls" where they were pulled from an NOS computer that was never put in service.
- Floppydisk.com was a bit disappointing. Slow (but friendly) responses via email, no idea about price. Claims to have new (2) Mitsumi D359's and (4) Teac FD235HG's.
The going price for a NOS drives are about $20-$35. You should definitely not be paying $50 or more for a drive. Refurbished drives should be going for less. Floppy drives are wear and tear items --- unless I really trust that the drives were serviced by someone you trust, I really wouldn't consider them. Not in July 2020. Maybe things will get more dire in later years.
When buying NOS drives, look for the signature baby blue transparent bags and yellow tape that these drives were put in from the manufacturer. Sometimes there's a plastic shell that then they went into after that.
Hope this helps.