GoTEK SFR1M44-U100 3.5 Inch 1.44MB USB SSD Floppy Drive Emulator Black

Bought 2 of these emulators to replace the failing floppy drives in my Prototrak CNC mill. You'll also need a floppy to USB harness to set it up. They are all over Amazon for cheap. Downloaded the program from Gotek site to format the USB sticks then installed the SWI software just like I was making a new disk. Really pretty slick. Boots up and runs perfect plus have pretty much unlimited storage now for saving programs.

Perfect, works well in my mpc 2000xl, easy to use and install.

I picked this up to connect to an XT PC. I was aware of the existence of gotek's, but I hadn't really done any homework on what was needed to install them. Figuring it'd be fairly plug play. It wasn't in my case, and the provided documentation wasn't very helpful. But I do have it up and running and I'm happy with it!I put the flashfloppy firmware on there. A search for flashfloppy wiki should get you where you need to start if you wish to do the same. I also had to attach the gotek after the twist in my floppy cable for it to work. I think that might have something to do the jumpers being set to unit 1? Since it's working I didn't test other configurations.

I used this product to replace the floppy disc drive on my old Yamaha DGX-500 Portable Grand keyboard. Took some time to get used to it and figure out how to use it, but installation was simple, and after you figure out how to use it it's a very cool upgrade to the old floppy drive. As someone else mentioned, install was just plug and play, and the flash drive if it's too long will be in front of some keys, but slim flash drives are pretty cheap now, so that problem is easily remedied.If you've got some patience, and the skills to install, this is a great cheap product that works well. Cost about the same as a pack of floppy discs on Amazon, and gives a ton more functionality than a floppy would in today's world.

Replaced the old 3.5" FDD on a Roland digital Piano with this drive with no issues. I did use duct tape along top of this emulator within the mounting brackets to keep it in place since the mounting screws did not seem to hold it securely enough. Managed to figure out the button programming, but could never get it to recognize more than 1 virtual disk, but that was okay for my need. I did download lots of free digital MIDI files of classical performances on a thumbdrive that played just fine on piano. Also able to record and play back on the piano as well. Happy with purchase.

Getting images onto the USB stick was a bit fussy, I found that letting the GoTek format the USB stick was the easiest way to get it in a state I could transfer images to it. It would be a TREMENDOUS improvement if they added an OLED display that would show the volume name of each "disk", so you don't have to rely on more draconian means to keep track. It works, but is surprisingly just as slow as a normal floppy. The 1.44MB drives require the more advanced controller that can do 500Kbit/s, I can tell you that this does not come close to achieving that speed.The fastest floppy drive I ever used was an old Toshiba 1.44MB drive back in the 90's, there was something magical about that drive and it transferred data very fast, faster than the typical 22KB/s.

The first thing I will tell you is this was absolutely Plug and Play for my Haas CNC Milling machine. I'm literally took it out of the box plugged it in mounted it up and it started working like a champ. Even worked with the old brackets. If you have an older CNC machine that still uses floppies 100% go out and buy several of these and put them on your shelf. They're a great price point and they work like a champ.If you need a decent manual or don't already have an innate understanding of how this ancient technology works you might be in trouble and need to rely on the web for support. It does have a single slip sheet manual and is good for a minimal amount of troubleshooting but that's it. If you have a non-standard application then you might be in trouble or need some additional help because the manual absolutely sucks. As far as being a trouble-free install I give it 100% five stars.

Avoid this model, as of Apr 2025 it still has the dreaded AT32F415 chip, making it pretty much useless for FlashFloppy.