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yo I got like 4 questions regarding the speed of reading all data off a 3.5" floppy disk! what's the fastest speed that's officially supported, what's the fastest *you* can do it, what's the fastest it could be done but that you might not be able to yourself, and what's the fastest you *should* do it?

I think the fastest you can manage on a standard floppy drive is about 90-120 seconds?

Many USB floppy drives are 2X speed and can manage about 45-60s. There's rare 4x drives that can supposedly do a full disk in 15-30s.

The fastest I do it is with greaseweazles: a full disk read on a standard drive, doing a 3-revolution-a-track flux read? 135 seconds! It may be slow, but it's thorough.

I have heard of a custom designed floppy drive that had four heads and spun at 10x speed. Theoretically that should be able to read entire floppy disks in something like 5-10 seconds.

Realistically the greaseweazle why is how everyone should do it, if you're aiming for archival. USB floppy is a second best, which is good for casual use.

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