Enabling technologies for a 100-MB 3.5" floppy (ZIPtm) disk drive

John C. Briggs

doi:10.1117/12.230058

15 January 1996 Enabling technologies for a 100-MB 3.5" floppy (ZIPtm) disk drive

John C. Briggs

Proceedings Volume 2604, High-Density Data Recording and Retrieval Technologies; (1996) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.230058
Event: Photonics East '95, 1995, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Abstract

By combining modified hard disk heads/suspensions, advances in thin metal particle media, media stabilization, and servo technologies, 3.5 inch floppy disks have recently jumped from the ubiquitous 1.44 MB floppies to the 100 MB Zip^TM disks. This paper details the technological improvements that have gone into increasing the storage capacity of the floppy disk drive and how the same improvements pushed data throughput to greater than 1 MB/sec and seek times down to 29 ms.

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John C. Briggs "Enabling technologies for a 100-MB 3.5" floppy (ZIPtm) disk drive", Proc. SPIE 2604, High-Density Data Recording and Retrieval Technologies, (15 January 1996); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.230058

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