Other companies involved in the development of SuperDisk include Compaq and OR Technology.
The idea eventually ended up at 3M, where the concept was refined and the design was licensed to established floppy drive makers Matsushita and Mitsubishi.
IMATION SUPERDISK ZIP
Iomega orphaned the project around the time they decided to release the Zip drive in 1994. It is one of the last examples of floptical technology, where lasers are used to guide a magnetic head which is much smaller than those used in traditional floppy disk drives. The design of the SuperDisk system came from an early 1990s project at Iomega. SuperDisk worldwide ceased manufacturing in 2003. It was more successful in Asia and Australia, where the second-generation SuperDisk LS-240 drive and disk was released. The SuperDisk had little success in North America with Compaq, Gateway and Dell being three of only a few OEMs who supported it.
The SuperDisk hardware was created by 3M's storage products group Imation in 1997, with manufacturing chiefly by Matsushita. The SuperDisk LS-120 is a high-speed, high-capacity alternative to the 90 mm (3.5 in), 1.44 MB floppy disk. RED - The drive eject motor allows the disk to be under computer control so that it normally will not eject until the computer has completed its read or writing tasks.
YELLOW - A secondary smaller coil primarily acts to keep the head mechanism aligned parallel with the disk surface. Two voice coil servomotors move the drive heads precisely across the disk surface.īLUE - The main servo with a large coil provides the primary force to move the head mechanism. A combination of backup media may be the best course for instance, backing up currently used files to Flash Drives or Micro Drives, and keeping seldom used files on DVD or CD.that snapbacks are back.This shows the technology of the SuperDisk drive. Here are some current data storage and backup technologies that Imation supplies for a variety of customer needs. This means that the same SuperDisk drive can be used to read and write to older 1.44 MB diskettes as well as the new 120 MB SuperDisk diskettes. Unlike other removable disk storage solutions, such as the Zip drive, SuperDisk is backward compatible with older diskettes. The result is that a SuperDisk diskette can have 2,490 tracks, as opposed to the 160 tracks that conventional 3.5-inch 1.44 MB diskettes use. This pattern is then read by the SuperDisk drive to precisely align the read/write head. SuperDisk diskettes are etched with a servo pattern at the factory. Once a drive fails, it may be impossible or expensive to get data off the diskettes. We do not have information about where these products can be purchased. SuperDisk 120MB Diskettes may still be available in the marketplace, however are no longer warranted. But the SuperDisks were not expanded because of slowness and unreliability in comparison with ZD. This SuperDisk was introduced by Iomega in 1995 as ZD. The main advantage when compared to FDD and ZD is the possibility to use the united mechanism for these special diskettes even for FDD and ZD. LS-120 or SuperDisk is a high-speed, high-capacity alternative to the 90 mm (3.5 in), 1.44 MB floppy disk.