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		dale_glass on Dec 7, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Five-Disk Floppy RAID: 4MB of Blistering Fast Stor... Fun fact: There's also 2X speed floppy drives, and maybe even higher. So this can be improved further with the right drives. I believe they were mainly used in things like photo cameras, during the short period of time when photo cameras used floppies to store stuff, and the slow write speed was a bottleneck.

mbirth on Dec 8, 2023 [–]

The LS-120 drives were compatible with bog standard 3.5” disks and could read them at a higher speed.

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