Short for
High Floppy Disk, a type of
high-density floppy disk developed by Sony that can hold 200
MB of data. Like the competing
SuperDisk disk drive from Imation, HiFD disk drives can read and write old 1.44 MB floppy disks in addition to the new high-density disks. HiFD drives support
data transfer rates of up to 3.6
MBps.