720RPM 3.5" FDDs?

Christian Corti cc at informatik.uni-stuttgart.de
Mon Feb 2 03:50:29 CST 2009


On Sun, 1 Feb 2009, Chuck Guzis wrote:
> I've never seen one, but it's logical to suppose that a double-speed
> drive that handles 1.3MB media has been made.  I'd expect to find it
> in Japan moreso than the West, however, since the Japanese used to be
> pretty much wedded to the NEC 9801 series archtecture that used 360
> RPM drives for everything.

Well, that probably makes sense.
It seems that there are quite a few drives which may be used to 
replace old 600RPM drives, but I haven't tried it yet.

Christian


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