High all, so the perfectionist in me wants to swap out the 5.25" floppy drive in my Windows 98 build because the current drive is that horrendously ugly tan/lightbrown color, and it is clashing with the perfectly color matched CD-Rom, DVD-Rom, and LS-120 SuperDrive in my brand new EverCase Full Size Horizontal Beige case. 🤣.

Anyway, I have been looking for Teac FD-55BR drives because the color is correct, they are comparatively new, and they are 360K. However, I recently came across a site which claims that the FD-55BR is 360k but is 48tpi 80 track. (https://retrocmp.de/fdd/teac/fd55_i.htm) This seems odd to me because I was under the impression that 360k drives were 48tpi 40 track while 1.2mb drives were 96tpi 80 track. However this site is claiming that the FD-55BR is some bastardized amalgamation (haha perfect) of a 360k and 1.2mb drive.

In the end the only thing that matters is, will most random 360k drives be able to read floppies written by the FD-55BR? What is the important determining factor for 360k drive readability - TPI? # of tracks? Both?

Thanks for your help!