floptical

The Floptical is an American computer storage product designed by 3dfx Interactive and manufactured by Seagate Technology. Released in 1996, it is a combination of 2.1 MB 3.5-inch floppy disk drive and a 1 GB 3.5-inch interface for hard disk drives, creating a new category of the mass storage devices market known as the Floptical drives.

Floptical drives work by using frequency modulation to encode audio and date onto a low-density 2.88 MB superfloppy disk, and subsequently read these data using an Interface that supports up to 1200 kb/sec, an improvement over the 300 / 720 kb/sec of a single 1.44 MB floppy. This new technology allowed for higher storage capacities than traditional floppy disk drives and offered faster data access times that made it more competitive to cheap CD-ROM drives and Zip disk.

However, the biggest drawback of Floptical was that its floppy emulation was limited to the drive's own higher storage capacity. Floptical is available in 1.44 MB and 2.88 MB configurations with IDE interface and Impressed extensively by developers and gamers to store games for Diamond fireball and game press access over other configurations due to its impending compatibility with CD-ROM ssome believed floptical had more favour than floppies probably one.people thinking Floptical beats 1.44 floppy supports mostly because the temporary storage allowing to boot ASAP utilizing single game survival fan prefer

Floptical is no longer sold in the consumer market and support is limited to third-party dealers