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{{Infobox storage medium | |||
| name = Sony HiFD | |||
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| image = File:Sony HiFD drive, front and back side by side.png | |||
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| image_caption = A Sony HiFD drive, with the front and back side by side and a ruler for a size comparison | |||
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| type = High-capacity [[Floppy disk|floppy disk]] | |||
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| capacity = 200MB | |||
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| owner = [[Sony]] | |||
| manufacturer = [[Sony]] | |||
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| released = 1998 | |||
| discontinued = 2001 | |||
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The '''Sony HiFD''' ('''Hi'''gh capacity '''F'''loppy '''D'''isk) was a high-capacity [[floppy disk]] system developed by [[Sony]] and [[Fujifilm]] and introduced in late 1998.<ref name="Austen_1998"/> Development and sale of the drives was discontinued by early 2001.<ref name="Sony_2001"/> | The '''Sony HiFD''' ('''Hi'''gh capacity '''F'''loppy '''D'''isk) was a high-capacity [[floppy disk]] system developed by [[Sony]] and [[Fujifilm]] and introduced in late 1998.<ref name="Austen_1998"/> Development and sale of the drives was discontinued by early 2001.<ref name="Sony_2001"/> | ||
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<ref name="Austen_1998">{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/10/08/technology/news-watch-with-new-disk-drive-inventor-of-floppy-competes-with-itself.html |title=NEWS WATCH; With New Disk Drive, Inventor Of Floppy Competes With Itself |author-last=Austen |author-first=Ian |date=1998-10-08 |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |access-date=2018-07-24 |language=en}}</ref> | <ref name="Austen_1998">{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/10/08/technology/news-watch-with-new-disk-drive-inventor-of-floppy-competes-with-itself.html |title=NEWS WATCH; With New Disk Drive, Inventor Of Floppy Competes With Itself |author-last=Austen |author-first=Ian |date=1998-10-08 |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |access-date=2018-07-24 |language=en}}</ref> | ||
<ref name="Sony_2001">{{Cite web |url=https://www.sony.net/SonyInfo/IR/library/presen/er/00q4_sony.pdf |publisher=[[Sony Corporation]] |title=Financial Results For The Fiscal Year Ended March 31, 2001 |author-last= |author-first= |date=2001-04-27 |website= |access-date=2018-07-24}}</ref> | <ref name="Sony_2001">{{Cite web |url=https://www.sony.net/SonyInfo/IR/library/presen/er/00q4_sony.pdf |publisher=[[Sony Corporation]] |title=Financial Results For The Fiscal Year Ended March 31, 2001 |author-last= |author-first= |date=2001-04-27 |website= |access-date=2018-07-24}}</ref> | ||
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<ref name="Fidel_1998">{{Cite news |url=https://www.deseretnews.com/article/664814/SONY-device-is-hot-item-Iomega-pushes-its-Clik.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180726005848/https://www.deseretnews.com/article/664814/SONY-device-is-hot-item-Iomega-pushes-its-Clik.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=26 July 2018 |title=SONY device is hot item; Iomega pushes its Clik! |author-last=Fidel |author-first=Steve |date=1998-11-25 |work=DeseretNews.com |access-date=2018-07-25 |language=en}}</ref> | <ref name="Fidel_1998">{{Cite news |url=https://www.deseretnews.com/article/664814/SONY-device-is-hot-item-Iomega-pushes-its-Clik.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180726005848/https://www.deseretnews.com/article/664814/SONY-device-is-hot-item-Iomega-pushes-its-Clik.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=26 July 2018 |title=SONY device is hot item; Iomega pushes its Clik! |author-last=Fidel |author-first=Steve |date=1998-11-25 |work=DeseretNews.com |access-date=2018-07-25 |language=en}}</ref> | ||
<ref name="IBM_2000">{{Cite web |url=https://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/1695.wss |title=IBM Launches Low-Priced Workstations for Complex Digital Design |author-last= |author-first= |date=2000-06-06 |website=www-03.ibm.com |language=en-US |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180726005804/https://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/1695.wss |url-status=dead |archive-date=26 July 2018|access-date=2018-07-25}}</ref> | <ref name="IBM_2000">{{Cite web |url=https://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/1695.wss |title=IBM Launches Low-Priced Workstations for Complex Digital Design |author-last= |author-first= |date=2000-06-06 |website=www-03.ibm.com |language=en-US |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180726005804/https://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/1695.wss |url-status=dead |archive-date=26 July 2018|access-date=2018-07-25}}</ref> | ||
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[[Category:Sony products]] | [[Category:Sony products]] | ||
[[Category:Floppy disk drives]] | [[Category:Floppy disk drives]] | ||
[[Category:Computer-related introductions in 1998]] | [[Category:Computer-related introductions in 1998]] | ||
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The Sony HiFD (High capacity Floppy Disk) was a high-capacity floppy disk system developed by Sony and Fujifilm and introduced in late 1998.[1] Development and sale of the drives was discontinued by early 2001.[2]
Announced in October 1997,[3] HiFD disks offered a capacity of 200 MB while maintaining backwards compatibility with standard 720 KB and 1.44 MB diskettes. Sony initially planned to begin shipping the drives in the first half of 1998,[4] however, the introduction was delayed until the end of the year.[5] TEAC and Alps also planned to introduce HiFD drives. The first drives to reach the public were external parallel port models priced at $199.[6] An internal ATA version was later offered, with a SCSI version planned but never launched. IBM offered an internal HiFD drive as an option on some of its workstations in 2000.[7]
Its immediate competitors were the popular Iomega Zip drive, which had a capacity of 100 MB and Imation's Laser-Servo LS-120 SuperDisk, which had a capacity of 120 MB and like HiFD was also compatible with existing floppy disk formats. Many observers confidently predicted that the HiFD would swiftly take over the market, and ultimately replace the floppy drive.
This did not happen, however. A few months after launch it emerged that the HiFD suffered from frequent crashesTemplate:Clarification during read/write operations, and had a tendency of having its read rate drop into the low kilobyte per second range, effectively rendering it unusable. Initially it was thought that a new driver could solve these problems – instead, Sony issued a full recall at the start of the following year.
The HiFD was re-released in November 1999, using a USB connection for the external drive. The whole affair gave the HiFD a reputation for being unreliable, and by this time the Zip drive now sported a 250 MB capacity and CD-RW drives were entering the mainstream. These factors doomed the second HiFD to failure.
See also
- SuperDisk (LS-120, LS-240)
- Zip drive (ZIP-100, ZIP-250, ZIP-750)
- Caleb UHD144
- Floppy disk
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