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Saturn floppy drive power rating
Gaiseric - Nov 26, 2025
   Gaiseric Nov 26, 2025 
Hoping someone can answer this for me, I pulled my Saturn out of the closet after a solid 10 years of being packed away and started back on my most recent Shining Force 3 Scenario 3 save. I'm using a legit Sega backup ram cart but with the age of it it's making me a little nervous considering it's probably a 200+ hour save file between the 3 scenario's and decided to buy a Saturn FDD so I could back up those saves as well as all of my other old ones. Found one at a decent price but the seller mentioned that you would need a step down converter for it, really wondering if anyone knows the actual power range of the board. I've ran older Japanese systems like the SuperGrafx and PC-FX on 120 with no issues before so thinking he's just saying that as a precaution but if anyone knew for sure it would be great.

   Gaiseric Dec 15, 2025 
So, it came in today and just in case anyone else is wondering in the future it doesn't give a range on the power supply, only lists 100v on the casing and no voltage markings on the board when I took the power supply apart so went with a stepdown just to be safe. Sadly the drive fails about 75% of the time on the disks I've tried with it and is really noisy so guess now it's time to replace the drive.

   vbt Dec 15, 2025 
it won't be easy to find spare parts