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LGR Oddware - MiniDisc Data Storage: Sony MDH-10

LGR · 623.1K views · 2018-08-17 · 16:15

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Overview

An LGR Oddware episode looking at Sony's MDH-10 MD Data drive from 1995, which used MiniDisc for computer storage years before Hi-MD. The host tries out the drive with its original drivers and software.

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HN cites it as the go-to video on the little-known MD Data format, mostly in MiniDisc and obsolete-media threads.

Discussed on HN; no positive recommendation is recorded in this export · HN mentions 2020–2023

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goosedragons · 2023-02 · Reference

They did. MD Data was a thing. It just flopped super hard. It was way too expensive over Zip disc for a minor storage increase and size decrease. LGR did an Oddware video about it a few years back: [VIDEO]

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fredoralive · 2022-11 · Reference

Sony did release drives, DGR looks at one in this video for example [VIDEO] . It's yet another example in the weird graveyard of replacements for the 1.44MB floppy that didn't catch on.

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dijit · 2020-03 · Reference

Seems like you're right but I never-ever saw this: [VIDEO] Although it seems like it's not really minidisks.

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