The drive may be dodgy, but the floppy as a storage medium is now well past its use-by-date. It is slow, error-prone and of extremely limited capacity, and electromagnetically fragile. About all a floppy is useful for now is an emergency boot-disk.
For data transfer between computers, the USB drives, including the solid-state flash drives, leave the floppy in the stone-age. I have two Sony Micro-Vaults and these now transfer files between my notebook and office machine. A 512Mb micro-vault makes for very fast data transfer and can hold a lot!
I also think the quailty of floppies today is well below that of say ten years ago. Same applies to domestic-format videotapes as well.
Abandon the floppy and go for one of the several USB options.