Yes, the HxC devices are great - they emulate an actual floppy drive which can talk to a real floppy controller as opposed to many of the other ‘modern storage

Yes, the HxC devices are great - they emulate an actual floppy drive which can talk to a real floppy controller as opposed to many of the other ‘modern storage for retrocomputing’ devices which interface at a higher level. I’d also add that on the other side, to image all the old floppies I found the Kryoflux a good solution - it allows you to record them at the magnetic flux transition level which helps with copy protection mechanisms and/or slightly corrupt discs.