LS-240 Drive, uses 240mb, 120mb Discs, AND Reformats Floppies to 32mb !!

[Richard_Cranium72]

Que! SuperDisk 240 Drive offers features that can’t be beat at any price! (yea sure)

This new incarnation of the SuperDisk technology can reformat standard 1.44MB floppy diskettes to a whopping 32MB capacity allowing rapid and convenient storage of photos, MP3, database, and other critical information.

That’s 22 times the capacity of the original 1.44MB diskette.

Waaay tooo expensive, but I like technology that's "backwards compatible" shows someone is paying attention,,

Bill,, yoo hoo,, Meestor Gates, are you listening ???



DrVette

[Nighthawk]

How much are these, how does it accomplish the floppy format, and just how compatible are any of its standards?

Those are the things I look at when I get a new drive, but this does sound like a neat addition if it was cheap.

Now if only it would read zip

[daveleau]

I like the format to 32MB. That would make things easy, but Zip disks are so widespread, I think superdisks are out. I wish this had come out about 2-3 years ago...

Dave

[DanU]

Yeah, it's a shame that this didn't exist during the Zip/EZFlyer war. Now that CDRWs are widespread and cheap, this product is going to have a tough time competing in the multi-megabyte portable media market.

Still... it sounds like a real technological achievement to be able to store 32MB on a standard 1.44MB floppy. I wonder how they did it....

[Richard_Cranium72]

I spelled the mfg wrong, it's QPS,
http://www.us.buy.com/retail/product...0451&loc=14617


$175.00

Discs ->>
http://www.us.buy.com/retail/product...0445&loc=14617

[radbasa]

nah, i'll stick to CD-RW. everyone's got a CD reader anyway. don't think there are non-multi session CD readers still running.

[This message has been edited by radbasa (edited 07-13-2001).]

[Richard_Cranium72]

No, radbasa, I didn't Think every would spend that kind of money for it.

We just throw around the merits of such a device.

Do you have any comments regarding the technology behind this item ?

I, for one am curious as to how they reformat a 1.44 into a 32mb disc.

That means you don't have to BUY 32mb discs only the 240 or 120's

DrVette

[Yar1182]

I had a laptop with a ls120 once. I really liked it. It makes a lot of sense for a laptop since you kind of do need a floppy anyways. I couldn't really share any disks with anyone, but it was great for my personal back ups and files. I wish ls120 was an option on my present laptop. i got all these disks i can't use. I have since bought a zip.

[Richard_Cranium72]

There is a Digital Camera that takes LS-120's but I don't remember which one.

You can send me all the extra media you got, since I've got 2 of the LS-120 drives in service

[joelsplace]

I'll buy ls120 or 240 disks if they are cheap. I would also buy a drive or two. QPS has a $30 rebate on the ls-240 for the next few months... Thanks, joelsplace@home.com

[SPEEDO]

I don't think I would keep anything of value on a floppy these days.
How many times have you put a disk into the drive only to see disk not formatted, Or bad sectors.
And you know that it was good the last time you used it!

SPEEDO

[Comage]

SPEEDO: If that's the case, then it's sometimes a problem with the FDD. I get this kind of problems sometimes, with bad sectors being discovered when I try to access my diskettes. Upon formatting of the diskettes on another system, the bad sectors disappeared. And it wasn't with only one diskette, but with several.

[voogru]

Floppies are way to unreliable for me. CD-RW all the way!

[SPEEDO]

comage

I have three machines and the first thing I do is go to one of them with the floppy only to get the same results!

I just don't trust em! But that's only the way that I feel!

SPEEDO

[LostBok]

Nice technology - too expensive.... 8x4x CDR/RW's are cheaper, probably copy the data at he same speed and are readable by nearly anybody..... radbasa - I've still got one CDROM thats not CDRW compatible, although will read multisession disks - its a NEC caddy-load 6x SCSI... fairly old?? I think so!! But still works like a charm... until recently I still had that in my main case for the odd CD-rip/copy that the DVD drive wouldn't do.... plus played mos tof my games on it... now the CDRW's too quick, so had to replace it

I think the only thing thats gonna knock CDRW's out will be DVD-RW's... gonna be a while before they're too mainstream though...

Laters!