Best external floppy drive for an iMac Intel?

I have some ancient ClarisWorks 2.0 files I'm looking to resurrect some day. Peggy here has steered me to a software program that my iMac can use to open them, but I need some guidance as to a good working USB floppy drive. Thanks!

USB floppy drives were never terribly reliable on Mac OS X, and I'm not sure if any will work on an Intel-based Mac. But my limited experience was that any USB floppy drive was as good as any other, and probably has as good a chance at working as any other drive. Tiger Direct still lists some, and you may find other dealers as well. It may be more cost effective, though, if you can find a helpful dealer or fellow user (perhaps through a Mac user group) that would have a Mac with a floppy and a USB port you could use, and use a USB flash drive to transfer those old files to your new Mac.
Note if you elect to get a USB floppy that none of the drives ever have recognized the old 400k and 800k Apple floppy formats; your disks must be 1.4MB.
Hope this helps. Good luck.

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