Because the technology evolved the way it did, Imation threw in the towel, as Iomega finally did. USB flash drives were also fast-becoming a less expensive means to store/transfer data. The SuperDisk was successful in Asia and Australia but had little success in North America. The SuperDisk was manufactured primarily by Matsushita. The SuperDisk hardware was designed by 3M’s storage products group Imation in 1997.
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Unfortunately for Iomega, CD burners were gaining popularity over the sometimes-problematic Zip drives and their "Click Death" design flaw. The SuperDisk LS-120 is a high-speed, high-capacity alternative to the 1.44 MB, 90-mm (3.5-inch) floppy disk.
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The SuperDisk Drive, on display this week at the PC Expo show in New York, will be out in July, priced at 200. The initial 100 MB Zip disks were 20 MBs shy of Imation's 120 MB SuperDisks, but they followed it with 250 MB Zip drives/disks, and eventually - the 750 MB drives/disks. Imation Corp, one of the prime movers behind the LS-120 high- capacity removable disk drive that is backward-compatible with standard 1.44Mb floppies, has launched the first external LS-120 parallel port device.
Hello Select your address All Hello, Sign in. It was more versatile than Iomega's Zip drive, in that it could read standard floppy disks - but Iomega eventually won the competition for market share. Imation SuperDisk USB Drive (120 MB) : Amazon.sg: Electronics. The SuperDisk, also marketed as LS-120, was a high-speed, high-capacity alternative to the 3.5 inch, 1.44 MB floppy disk. My Compaq Presario 5020 shipped with an Imation SuperDisk Drive, instead of the standard FDD. On our tests, the UHD144's performance was a distant second to the Iomega Zip Drive and only a little better than the Imation SuperDisk, which was faster. "Soon you'll see SuperDisk Drives built into desktop PCs, notebooks, external drives - everywhere. Your shopping cart is empty MIDTeks Inc Online Computer Store and Printer Supplies in Jordan.