I considered one of these a while back H, but magnetic media is fast becoming a thing of the past & if you can find any new media, it's always a rip off price & has no guarantee because of it's age.
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Using it to use disks on a daily basis isn't really the main point of it though. It's more for archival of existing disks for preservation. That's what I use my Kryoflux for.

But I'm considering one of these because they are so cheap as I can mount it inside my emulation PC with a floppy drive installed for a nice solution to archiving the ton of disks I still have to go through.
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I guess so if you don't have an Amiga with a working floppy drive. Fully appreciated!

Hope you find a Purple one!
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It's far harder to create disk images on a real Amiga. The Greaseweazle and Kryoflux both make low level disk images so don't need to even read the disk format. This means you can backup and image any disk and its contents with be preserved, even if there are read errors or, as with many games, exotic disk formats that normal OSs can't read.
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"Exotic Disk Formats"



We used X-CopyPro ....a lot.... back in the day.
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Indeed and it's still such a great utility. But that only creates disk to disk copies, not rom files. These hardware solutions go much further because they create direct copies at the low level magnetic data level, so it doesn't care what format the disk is or how the data is written. It literally just makes an image of the data as held on the disk surface. So is the perfect archival solution.

This is now important now then ever. More and more original floppy disks are failing. They only ever had a life expectancy of 20 years max. Many are now 40 years old and it amazed me how many are still readable.
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