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nyaga
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 Disk Capacity
SD High Capacity cards, Storage, Storage capacity planning
Why can't I "notch" a disk to make it High-Capacity.

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ASKED: October 28, 2009  6:30 AM
UPDATED: October 29, 2009  2:17 PM
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Can you elaborate a bit more about what your talking about? ----------------------------------------------------- If you are talking about the difference between hi-capacity and lo-capacity 3 1/2 inch floppy disks then the answer is there is a PHYSICAL limitaion on the older disks of 700K. You can poke a hole in it, but it will gain you nothing. (It seems to me there even was a device to do this... but I am getting old and my memory isn't what it once was.) Steve
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Yes, you can notch a 5.25″ floppy in order to be able to flip it and use the other side… but seriously, why are you using floppies?? :)

Flash media is cheap, easy to use, resilient, and has far more capacity than a floppy. Heck, I can’t find any piece of flash media (USB stick, SD card, etc.) smaller than 256MB anymore, more than twice as large as an LS120 or Zip 100 disk.

Sonotsky
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