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HiMD Recording Capacities

Source reference · needs review · MiniDisc Wiki, September 2026 snapshot

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Source: MiniDisc Wiki contributors · September 3, 2026 snapshot · CC BY 4.0, except where otherwise credited.

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Adapted from “HiMD Recording Capacities”. Links, layout and file names normalized; missing database fields restored; remote embeds replaced with links. Manufacturer manuals and separately credited photographs retain their original attribution.

HiMD Recording Capacities

This page lists recording capacities for discs recorded in various HiMD modes. This information is sourced from the manual to the MZ-RH1, but should be similar for all Hi-MD recorders

Except for Linear PCM, these times are largely rounded to the closest ten minutes. Exact total available run-time could vary slightly between computer transfers and optical dubs. All HiMD machines support LPCM and all ATRAC3 modes but not all machines support MP3. Other MP3 bit-rates exist but Sony only showed this one rate.

HiMD 1Gig MD80 MD 74 MD 60
Formatted Data Storage 964 MB 291 MB 270 MB 219 MB
Linear PCM 94 minutes 28 minutes 26 minutes 21 minutes
ATRAC3plus 352-kilobits 5 hours 50 minutes 1 hour 35 minutes 1 hour 30 minutes 1 hour 10 minutes
ATRAC3plus 256-kilobits ("Hi-SP") 7 hours 55 minutes 2 hours 20 minutes 2 hours 10 minutes 1 hour 40 minutes
ATRAC3plus 192-kilobits 11 hours 3 hours 10 minutes 3 hours 2 hours 20 minutes
ATRAC3plus 64-kilobits ("Hi-LP") 34 hours 10 hours 10 minutes 9 hours 20 minutes 7 hours 40 minutes
ATRAC3plus 48-kilobits 45 hours 13 hours 30 minutes 12 hours 30 minutes 10 hours
ATRAC3 132-kilobits ("LP2") 16 hours 30 minutes 4 hours 50 minutes 4 hours 30 minutes 3 hours 40 minutes
ATRAC3 105-kilobits 20 hours 40 minutes 6 hours 10 minutes 5 hours 50 minutes 4 hours 40 minutes
ATRAC3 66-kilobits ("LP4") 32 hours 40 minutes 9 hours 50 minutes 9 hours 7 hours 20 minutes
MP3 128-kilobits 17 hours 5 hours 4 hours 30 minutes 3 hours 30 minutes