While I do agree with part of what you have said I do not agree with it
all.
Yes it needs to be close in price to the single density drives that are
currently out
to make them a viable option, since most CD's currently do not use that
medium,
hence alot of wasted ability and cost.
But now the "Super Floppy" thingy.
I love them.. they only cost 3x a floppy (or did when I purchased mine)
$120 vs $39. now of course floppies are $19 but the Super Floppies can
be had for ~$70. but you still have the 9x what a single floppy disk
could/can hold.. the major hold back on the drives was/is the media
which is STILL at ~$8 (yes I know you can get them for ~$4 is you really
LOOK!) but floppies are FREE (or darn close). So media was the driving
factor in those drives NOT taking off. the fact that they could hold
120meg on a floppy sized disk that was bootable AND would still use
regular floppies was GREAT. (BTW I still have these drives in MOST of my
machines) But they were and still are in direct competition with ZIP
drives which are the same price.. can be used on SCSI, and the media is
cheaper
I wished and still do that those drives would have taken off. but you
can get a ZIP drive (more common drive and better marketing by about
3million %) and the media is the same price.
the MAJOR drawing card for ZIP over "Super Floppies" was the SPEED
factor.. most none computer users didn't take into account that the
"Super Floppy" had to also run regular floppies, and you didn't need to
take up another slot in your external bays on your case. (you did not/do
not save on the IDE port)
Imation has discontinued the production of these drives, so the
availablity is NADA. and the media will NEVER go down in cost, is
anything it will go up. (lucky I have 40 disks already)
The reason I liked (and still do) these drives is the fact that I
could/can put a bootable OS on them and use them to rescue a failed
install and still have floppy use from the device and in a normal
desktop case that was almost required! now if you happen to have a FULL
tower case, you have room to spare, but in the regular desktop case you
NEVER do. All but 2 of my computers have FULL tower cases for that exact
reason. Most desktops only have 2-5 1/4 drive spots and one floppy with
external access and with a JAZ, CD and floppy well all GONE! now add a
zip.. OPPS ran out of space.
so if you combine the "ZIP" and floppy.. hey we all win.. (yes I know
the zip drive is 10x faster at just about everything over the
"Superdrive" BUT.. not in ability).
OK let me jump off my soapbox.. which I really didn't intend to stand
on.. :)
I love the device.. but it's a DEAD medium. :(
I for one am interested in double Density CD's... but the cost
differential needs to be near nil.
all that BLAH BLAH BLAH.. for that one line :)
Ghod
>Unless the price can be made comparable to single-density units,
>I can't see myself purchasing one. Having more capacity sounds
>nice, but the extra cost has to be negligible for it to become
>commonly accepted. Otherwise it becomes a very limited niche
>product like that "SuperDisk floppy" format that was supposed
>to replace the tried and true 1.44MB format.
On Sat, Apr 07, 2001 at 12:53:04AM +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I am interested to know how many people are interested in buying a
double
>> density cd writer. The drives will be available in May and the price
of a
>> 1.3 GB medium shall be about twice the price of a conventional
medium.
>>
>> I am interested to know this because I just got my sample and it
seems that
>> the drive behaves completely different when a DD media is installed.
>>
>> J?rg
>>
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