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The super-disk or LS-120 and its derivatives are a removable disk akin to a zip disk or floppy disk. They are designed to be easily swapped from machine to machine. Physically they resemble a floppy disk in that it has an internal platter is composed of flexible plastic encased in a hard case for protection.
They also had the advantage of being able to read and write standard 3.5" floppy disks, but at much higher speeds than standard floppy drives.
Superdisks are generally considered to be obsolete these days, with thumb drives cd-rws and dvd-rws having taken their place as easily portable storage devices. Superdisks are/were available in 120mb 240mb, and if i recall even 480mb sizes.
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Is a floppy disk bigger than a super disk?
No, a floppy disk is not bigger than a SuperDisk. A standard 3.5-inch floppy disk typically has a storage capacity of 1.44 MB, while a SuperDisk, which is often 3.5 inches in size but designed to hold more data, can store up to 120 MB or more. Therefore, in terms of storage capacity, the SuperDisk far exceeds that of a standard floppy disk.
What is the storage capacity of a SuperDisk?
LOL do any OEMs even support the SuperDisk anymore? It was never really a very popular drive to start out with. The LS-240 was originally able to format a floppy disk to 32MB and later on came out with their own disks (Zip like disks) which were 120.375 and 240.750 respectively.
How do zip superdisk and jaz disks compare to hard drives and floppy disks?
Zip,Super Disk, and Jaz drives hold large amounts of data and are portable.Floppy Disk and hard drives and notportableand cant hold that much data.
How would I connect an internal 3.5 Floppy disk drive to a motherboard that doesn't have a ribbon cable connector?
Use an external USB floppy drive. If you MUST have internal.... if you're good and creative you -might- be able to disassemble an external USB floppy drive and mount it like an internal drive. Alternatively, you could hunt down an old LS-120 "superdisk" drive. Its an IDE drive (40 pin connector, like your hdd or cdrom) that reads floppies (in addition to high-capacity proprietary disks)
What is the definition of a zipdisks?
The Zip system is based loosely on Iomega's earlier Bernoulli Box system; in both systems, a set of read/write heads mounted on a linear actuator flies over a rapidly spinning floppy disk mounted in a sturdy cartridge. The linear actuator uses the voice coil actuation technology, related to modern hard drives. The Zip disk uses smaller media (about the size of a 9 cm (3½") microfloppy, rather than the Compact Disc-sized Bernoulli media), and a simplified drive design that reduced its overall cost. This resulted in a disk that has all of the 9 cm (3½") floppy's convenience, but holds much more data, with performance that is much quicker than a standard floppy drive (though not directly competitive with hard drives). The original Zip drive had a data transfer rate of about 1 megabyte/second and a seek time of 28 milliseconds on average, compared to a standard 1.44 MB floppy's 500 kbit/s (62.5 kB/s) transfer rate and several-hundred millisecond average seek time. Today's average 7200 RPM desktop hard drives have average seek times of around 8.5-9 ms. Early generation Zip drives were in direct competition with the SuperDisk or LS-120 drives, which held 20% more data and could also read standard 3½" 1.44 MB diskettes, but they had a lower data transfer rate due to lower rotational speed. The rivalry was over before the dawn of the USB era. From wikipedia
