The Commodore 1551 (originally
introduced as the SFS 481) is a floppy disk drive for the Commodore
Plus/4 home computer. It resembles a charcoal-colored Commodore 1541 and
plugs into the cartridge port, providing faster access than the C64 /1541
combination. Commodore reportedly planned an interface to allow use of the 1551
with the C64, but it was never released.
Aside from faster access, the drive is very similar to the 1541. Like the 1541, it is a single-sided 170-kilobyte drive for 5¼" disks, with each disk split into 664 256-byte blocks available for user data plus 19 blocks for DOS data and directory; the file system makes each block its own cluster.