High Speed Floppy Drives?

john asks: "I'm in a position where I may be "blessed" with the task of creating several hundred, even thousand, standard 1.44mb 3.5" floppy disks from a set of images. I'm curious if there exists a sort of "high speed" floppy drive available that would significantly speed up the time this process takes. Thanks!" Ouch! What about floppy copiers that are designed to copy floppies at high speed without the need for a computer?

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What a job....

[yakfacts]

Assuming you still have to create these things yourself, there are several disk duplicators available that take a stack of floppy disks in through a magazine, automatically load the data, verify and spit 'em out.

Here are a couple I found on the web:
copypro makes a professional duplicator, and this is a cheaper model from Tops-Mate. I would also check magazines like Nuts and Volts. Once upon a time Computer Shopper was full ads for products like this as well, but it is just PC stuff anymore.

Re:make it SEP

[Spoing]

I find the formatting on pre-formatted disks just isn't up to spec anymore - they seem to be using some sort of high-speed formatter that doesn't leave a "deep" enough impression on the disk. Since I realised this and started doing a fresh low-level format on any "preformatted" disks I got, my error rate has gone down to the old levels....

Who sells pre-formatted EXT2 diskettes? What? How else would you format them? :/