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I was just wondering, do you think there will ever be a Mini Disc Pc drive? Personally, I would love if they came out with a 4.7GB capacity minidisc and a pc drive. This to me, would be the ultimate storage medium! I doubt this would ever happen...

What are your thoughts?

Whats going to happen to the other mediums like floppies and cdroms?

I know I'm gettin ahead of myself with Hi-MD just being released this summer but I'm real anxious to see a new storage medium.

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I think it's definitely possible with the Hi-MD format. It's not a question of "if", it's "when". If not a stand-alone drive that is purchaseable at a retail outlet, at least definitely with the Vaio series of computers. Who knows, maybe Sony will step up and release a 5.25" drive or equivalent..it depends if Hi-MD is a success or not, I suppose.

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This question makes me wonder if Sony got slightly ahead of itself a year or so ago when it created this crazy Media PC with a NetMD drive built into it. I was so excited to read about it and actually saw one once in a Circuit City in the Chicago area. I thought the idea at the time was great. Now with Hi-MD coming in as an audio AND data storage format, it may be time to try the internal drive again. I wouldn't be surprised to see Sony just put it in their Vaio line of desktops first, then *maybe* a version for anyone to install into their computers.

The only problem I could imagine stopping this is that the Hi-MD portables will already be acting as drives, so Sony may be thinking that creating an internal drive would be reinventing the wheel. I don't personally think so and it would be a shot at making Hi-MD more of a general-purpose medium alongside using it for music. Oh, the possibilities ...

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Well, they've already made NetMD drive, and that is something of a wheel reinvention, so to speak. Of course, whether or not we'll see an actual internal HiMD drive outside of Vaios is another story altogether.

It really shouldn't be that hard (thereoretically, in practice... hehehe), methinks, to rig an internal drive from an existing HiMD unit. Of course, it'd be permanently on PC->MD link via USB connection... Hmm...

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I thought they made a MD data drive? I've always wanted to track one down to add to my live show...

Anyway, I agree that at this point it may be re-inventing the wheel with an MD drive in computers from Sony's point-of-view. But, then again, not everyone would want a MD player to listen to music with, so they might just do it anyway..bigger marketing area.

I hope that this may be the case, because I would like a cheaper non-linear mass-storage unit. I mean, sure, there are CDs and DVDs, but they're only tehnically non-linear; you still have to burn them. Bah. I want to drag'n'drop like my hard drive/floppy disk/zip/etc.

~a.i.h.

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I hope that this may be the case, because I would like a cheaper non-linear mass-storage unit. I mean, sure, there are CDs and DVDs, but they're only tehnically non-linear; you still have to burn them. Bah. I want to drag'n'drop like my hard drive/floppy disk/zip/etc.  

then you want DVD-RAM. It's native drag-n-drop, non-linear, 4.7GB per disc, cartridge or cartridgeless. 9.4GB double sided discs (4.7GB per side) also available. You can play stuff off the disc while writing to it, just like a HD or zip drive. You can edit straight off the disc with no burning applications on your OS needed at all. Panasonic and LG both have combo drives using the format and the blanks are not that expensive considering you get 4.7GB and Hi-MD only gives you 1GB.

I'm sure you won't mind that the drives read and write regular CDs and DVDs too (in the traditional way...). You will never look back...

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