LS-120

[Anfield]

Has anyone had any experience w/ the LS-120 drives, the SuperFloppys. I'm sick of using floppys and the backward compatibility of the LS-120 sounds useful. Anybody got any thoughts? And if so, what brand is best? Thanks.

 

[Gunbuster]

"I'm sick of using floppys " me too, so guess what, I dont use them

$0.20 CDR's are much easier or use CDRW's and just keep erasing them if your freaky about wasting media

99.9% of computers can read a CD, a lot less can read a ls120

 

[Qwest]

my dad got a 120 drive a while ago, before cd-r/cd-rw became so cheap. i wouldnt go for it now. the disks are expensive and not worth it for cents/meg compared to a blank cd. the only pros are that they do read/write faster to regular floppies and that the eject function is electronic...hehe.

 

[cavingjan]

What is available at the other end? A lot of places (government and universities) use zip drives. Most print houses will be able to take any media. Not all places can read CDRWs. It all depends upon what else you have available.

 

[corkyg]

I have three systems . . . all have LS-120 drives. That makes it easy to share large downloads quickly. CDRs and CD/RWs are great . . . I have three of them as well . . . but it takes time to burn a CDR or RW.

I do all my downloads to LS-120 disks. That greatly lessens the chances of virus infected files getting into my HDDs. I also have them set up for emergency boot up.

The common floppy is really no longer needed. CDRs can be made bootable, so there is good logic to eventually getting rid of all 3.5" drives. Zips are a curious hybrid . . . not floppy compatible . . . and what's worse . . . they are made by (censored.) I never understood why they became so popular . . . good mass marketing, I guess.

Right now, LS-120 drives are borderline obsolete. They are difficult to find. About the only ones now available are made by Panasonic (Matsushita.) Looking ahead, for portable largh capacity media between many devices (laptops, desktops, cameras, etc., ) I really like the IBM Microdrive . . .now up to 1 GB in a Compact Flash form factor.

 

[LuciferHaze]

With the insanely cheap prices of CD-R and CD-RW and also their up to 700MB (80 minutes) storage capacity as compared to the 120MB storage capacity of the LS-120 floppy drive it should be a no-brainer on what format to use to backup stuff.