Magneto-Optical (MO) Drive

[myloplex]

A quick question: Can you really trust CD-R or your computer Hard disk to store all your important files for years? If your answer is "NO", look no further.

The Magneto-Optical (MO) Drive is known as one of the most reliable, rugged and affordable personal storage system! With a capacity of up to 2.3GB, you can now store hundreds of important documents and corporate data securely for years.

FACT: The MO Drive is widely used in the Engineering, Medical imaging, Telecommunication, Control & Automation and Aeronautical sectors for highly reliable and fast data backup and archival. The MO media can withstand Magnetic and x-ray fields as well as lasting up to 30 years under high humidity and dusty operating environment.

There are 3 type of interface options for your selection namely USB, ATAPI and SCSI supporting DOS, Windows, Mac and Unix OS platform.

http://www.fapl.fujitsu.com/modrive/mo_models_avail.html

Not available at the above URL:
Very new product... no out yet.
Photo-MO !!!!
Photo-MO has the following interfaces:
compact flash, SD card, smart media, memory stick, flash ATA, micro drive.

Around USD260/unit with one 640MB MO media. (price just a guage)

I have a pdf file with all the tech specs/pics but I no place to host the file. Any one can help ?

Can do a MO if there is an interest,,,, warranty all should be by manufacturer. Details not finalised.

Any comments ?

 

[AReality]

So U're doing a MO for a MO drive?

 

[wilddeepocean]

Hi there,
I'm not sure about current status of MO Disk technology...

To share a little bit of my experience few years back.

I feel this MO disk relatively slow, even though I used SCSI interface (maybe bacause of the technology at that time only Pentium II). I takes about 30 min to backup around 500MB of data.

The disk it self bulky and heavy because it has cover just like 3.5" FDD.

The other thing is, it was not backward compatible. I was using 2.4GB version when they come out with 5GB version I can't read my data from old disk (2.4GB disk) correctly (from windows explorer it shows nested directory, in sub-directory you can see list of directory same with root)

BTW, once again, it was long time ago (arround 1997-1999) and it's been a long time since the last time I heard about this also...

 

[myloplex]

i know nuts about this MO technology. But it seems not bad.

I got lobang from fujitsu lor .. I do not mass order from manufacturer and resell to you at a higher price.

Just see who else interested that's all and we order together

 

[AReality]

Basically IMHO, MO is not that cheap..

Buy cheap CDRs ($40 for 100), create 2 backup copies can already.
It'll last for a few yrs B4 U need to check if the data is still readable..

 

[Dennis]

It is suppose to be reliable and cheap.

 

[obviousdude]

i used MO drives in my company for archival purposes of documents previously. but back in about 1999-2000, my MO drives failed, and there was no local servicing agent. we had to ship the drive back to the US to service.

we evaluated the cost and decided that it was time to assess other formats. we chose between tape drives and CD-Rs and settled on CD-Rs as the cheapest and faster option.

easy to retrieve data, CDs can be read on any machine, instead of proprietry drives. it's also a format that was getting progressively cheaper, instead of more expensive as MO storage became rarer.