But the technology behind the LS-120 allows the tracks to be placed closer together than on a conventional floppy disk.

Stacker can stretch a conventional 20-megabyte hard disk into 40 megabytes or more of storage space.

If stored on conventional floppy disks, the data would fill 5,500 of them.

There is still a case for putting such material on conventional hard disks.

These are also expensive, and they are relatively slow as well, making conventional magnetic hard disks a more attractive option for now.

It costs a little more than a conventional hard disk and eats up an expansion slot, but it is a fast do-it-yourself project.

There is a good reason that conventional hard disks are sealed and hidden well away.

Home entertainment, meanwhile, has adopted the multichannel mode, which cannot be fully realized by conventional disks or players.

Such content can quickly overload the storage capacity of conventional floppy disks.

In a conventional hard disk, the read-write head works in roughly the same manner as the cartridge and stylus on a phonograph.