Domain: imation.com
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Comments · 28
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Re:Flash drive with finger print reader?
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Re:Read-only switch for USB sticks?
I never encountered a USB stick with a read-only switch. Floppies had them (although they only "communicated" a read-only setting and could not enforce it). SD cards have them, but no USB stick I ever saw had one. Why? Such a switch on a digital device can really enforce the read-only setting.
Just one example of a thumb drive with a write-protect switch - http://www.imation.com/en-us/Imation-Products/USB-Flash-Drives--Accessories/Clip-Flash-Drive/
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Re:Hybrid I/O well before before 2020
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Flash Failure
I have had 2 fail on me within the last year. The first was a Corsair Survivor http://www.corsair.com/products/survivor/default.aspx Was a pretty rough and tumble device but I guess it couldn't stand pottery dust. Within 4-5 months Windows nor Mac would recognize the drive. I kept a backup of it and called Corsair. They were very cool about it and asked that I return it. I sent it back and received a replacement for the drive within a few business days of them receiving it. I want to say that it was sent back to me via UPS Second Day. The drive itself wasn't handled to roughly so I have my doubts that it wasn't just a hardware problem from the start. Second one that is on its' way to failing is an Imation Clip Drive http://www.imation.com/en/Imation-Products/USB-Flash-Drives--Accessories/Clip-Flash-Drive/. It is intermitantly failing to transfer files. I ran a version of Portable Apps http://portableapps.com/ and am also starting to see the Imation have a few problems. I'll probably not get the clip flash again because dust and dirt gets into the rubber boot and falls into the USB sheeth.
I work in an environment that can get pretty dirty, http://www.hlchina.com/ But what should I expect from a pottery. On the positive side, i've had about 3-4 SD cards that I transfered over from my Palm Zire that are now being used in the wife's camera and they refuse to die. -
Re:Answer: Better ECCWhat concerns me is why no one is working on improving density on my 3.5" microfloppy. I am running Windows 9.5 on an AMD-K5 HP box. I like to save Slashdot tirades, but typical Slashdot tirades consume more space than I have on my microfloppy.
They did already. The difference is that you get a whole new hard drive all at once, rather than swapping platters in and out like you do with a floppy.
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500 cds per stack 100 cds per unit.
The Imation DiscStakka, I've been hoping they come out with a 1000 disc holder w/ Reader built in
But currently each unit only holds 100 discs, which can be stacked in 5's, It comes with a nice indexing software, although the units have to eject the CD & have you put it into your computers CD or DVD rom drive as there is no built in reader.
Here's the link http://www.imation.com/products/disc_stakka/index. html -
Here's one It's only 500 CDs per stack though
The Imation DiscStakka, I've been hoping they come out with a 1000 disc holder w/ Reader built in
But currently each unit only holds 100 discs, which can be stacked in 5's, It comes with a nice indexing software, although the units have to eject the CD & have you put it into your computers CD or DVD rom drive as there is no built in reader.
Here's the link http://www.imation.com/products/disc_stakka/index. html -
Imation Disc Stakka
Maybe something like this might be what you are looking for....
http://www.imation.com/products/disc_stakka/index. html
- Stack units up to five high to create a tower that holds up to 500 discs without any extra cabling or rebooting your computer.
- Connect towers using powered USB hubs to control over 100 towers (that's over 50,000 discs) from a single computer. -
Re:Solution, or a card?You don't have to have a job related to that to hate it. Every single business these days overuses that word along with "product." Gee I wish they'd be more creative sometimes and less irritating. (It's not just "Virus Software" it's "Our Security Solution Products.. Oh yeah, and they might detect viruses or something.")
Actually, the most annoying one I saw recently was on Imation's web site. It's from their "Business Select" line of media, which they describe as a "high quality digital storage solution". Right. It's a writable DVD thank you.
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Lightscribe Compatible DVDS already out
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Re:Journalists should listen to industry leaders.I believe the future of the floppy should be to make a dual capability drive attached via usb2.0/sata to the motherboard. It should have a 2x or 4x floppy drive mechanism to read and write standard 1.44 disks plus the ability to read and write to a new, high density media. It should be able to random write and have the ability to manage the write itself so it can provide a nice low-level interface to software so you could, for example, treat it as a hard drive and read and write to it in DOS without drivers.
Nice try bud, but it's obvious you're an Imation SuperDisk engineer. Now where's that ZIP engineer lurking...
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Re:Not for Home Users?I agree that the Zip drive was successful, but there were many other technologies fighting for that same "SuperDisk" market at the time when CDs were still too expensive to be practical and the floppy disk was too small and slow to be useful.
I remember all the technologies out there like Imation SuperDisk or Castlewood Orb. I used to be rooting for the Orb drive to win the market and become the standard. At the time (1999) I think it could have been a killer product. It used hard-drive-type platters in a reasonably sized cartridge, with a 2.2 GB disk going for about $20. Also, reviews said that the drives were a lot faster than Zip disk.
But now, like you said, with CD burners and their media being so cheap and decently quick, plus the addition of Mt. Rainier to the RW drives, Zip clones have no more reasons to hang around. And from what I've heard, Iomega can't even get CD drives right.
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Re:The first Diskmen ws the smalest?
Since the site is only spitting up "Sorry can't allow you access today" now, I have to assume you're referring to an old 8cm player that played full-sized discs with them hanging out the side. I always wanted one of them, but I'll have to make do with my Imation RipGo! which, while it won't play 12cm discs, is also a USB CD burner and MP3 player...
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Re:Mistake on Clik! Drive
What about the 120MB super drive? -
Re:Stationwagon Quote
Ahem.
It's a station wagon full of backup tapes. 20GB Travan tapes are about the size of a cigarette pack.
While I'm not personally familar with how many cigaratte packs you can fit into a station wagon, I would imagine it's several hundered, if not a few thousand.
What's your cutoff point? -
DataPlay
What about dataplay, 500MB in the size roughly of a quarter. Very neat, but i think they ended up filing for bankruptcy over competition with flash cards and hard drive based mp3 players. I think even Britney Spears was scheduled to release an album using this technology.
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Re:PC BIOS is the enemy of floppy replacement
CD-ROM isn't a random-access read-write medium. Even packet-mode CD-RW will never be an adequate replacement for random-access r/w media.
CD-RW or DVD+RW drives which support Philips' Mount Rainier specification can be treated just like a floppy. The standard has been out for about a year and a half, but there are very few compatible drives in existence (HP DVD+RW, Teac and Yamaha CD, there may be others by this time), but AFAIK, Windows does not support it in the OS, though there is a kernel patch for Linux support.
An 8cm form factor DVD+RW (announced a month or two ago) with Mount Rainier support would be perfect companion for a sub-notebook. Something like the Imation RipGo! recast as a DVD+RW would be OK too. 1.4GB (less ~25% overhead for the Mt. Rainier filesystem) on something that works like a floppy would be very nice.
In the current political climate, every time I see a new optical technology proposed, I become suspicious that it's going to turn out to be an avenue for the introduction of new hardware DRM, i.e. if you want our shiny new storage medium, you must accept reduced utility.
Time will tell, I guess.
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nobody remember the imation LS-120 super-disks?link here
- 120MB storage
- drive reads regular floppies
- 5x transfer speed form regular floopies
it's a shame that it never caught on (critical-mass) wise. but it's a great technology that really should be standarized and widely used as a floppy replacement.
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Yes and no
In all my systems (I put together my own), I have been putting in LS-120 drives instead of straight floppy drives. That way I can still boot floppies on the rare instance I need to, and I have a removable media drive that isn't completely useless the rest of the time.
The only problem is that I can't really use it to install OS's, as there's usually a mid-stage (between BIOS access and fully installed OS access) where they expect to see something on the motherboard's floppy connector rather than an ATA drive. With OS's on CD's these days, that isn't a big problem.
I don't think I'd accept a system that had no kind of writeable removable-media access at all. But a CD-ROM burner would probably be sufficient for most uses. If not that, then it should at least have a ZIP or LS-120 drive. -
WhateverI bought a 20 Gig drive a couple of years back and it's still doing fine, a couple of Gig left, and it's got pretty much everything I've downloaded or created since, ooo, the early 90s. I'm just upset that I deleted my collection of DOS games I bought in Hong Kong and Malaysia some time around 1990 in a fit of morality. My
.MOD/.S3M and .JPG collection (all on floppy disks) went around the same time. Mind you, all of that put together would still only add a couple of hundred meg to my collection.A friend burns CDs like there's some sort of deadline. I've only just got myself a CD burner. Maybe if I downloaded MP3s through work I might run out of space a bit faster, but the 20gig I mentioned at the top of this comment is an IDE drive in a removable bay with a USB connection. If I need more storage I just buy another cheap drive and another tray.
At work, and I am fairly new here so I might get this wrong, we currently have about 6Gig of network storage for students which is more or less full, but our solution is simply to have Zip drives in every PC. Students have a quota and really their data is their own problem. Staff have 30Gig to play with and 5 is still free. And 9 of that is a backup of the Ghost images of the student labs that I made when I arrived.
Speaking of backups, it's been my experience that hard drive space is useless without the same amount of backup space available. DDS3 tapes only go up to something like 12/24 Gig if they haven't changed in a year or so, meaning that cheap and easy backup really ends at 20Gig. Personally, my 20Gig hard drive is more or less the backup, with data burnt to CD the same time it's moved from my portable's 4Gig to the 20Gig drive. But burning CDs isn't the best solution for stuff that changes frequently. (Although it seems to be the best option for Mac-oriented graphics designers who have to live in an otherwise PC-only corporate enviroment.)
My interest in retro gaming also probably helps keep my storage requirements low. Recently I burnt an 8Mbyte Dreamcast image that had an Atari 2600 emulator and over 100 (Public Domain) ROMs.
And I mean, who needs 120TB of random access storage? Seriously. I mean, sure it's nice to be able to skip instantly to a particular chapter of a movie, but how often do you do it, really? And the "Random" button on any given MP3 player is fun, but if you had to listen to the tracks in a particular order it wouldn't be the end of the world (imagine a DDS3 MP3 player - that's 12 days of music, solid, and it would probably be able to be smaller than the original Sony Walkman).
Wow, that was a long post.
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Damn lies and corporate press releases
Sigh. I've never even HEARD of eMag. I doubt that they are the last maker of 9-track tapes. IMATION seems to still sell them.
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Are they really gone?
Hm, this story again.
Aren't these guys still making their own tapes?
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Re:Sony
Sony Digital Relay: full-size CD, 650 MB, under 1 pound, 3 hour battery life, $250
Imation RipGO!: mini-CD, 185 MB, 8 ounces, 5 hour battery life, $400
Both: USB (4x / 4x / 6x max), WMA, MP3, CDDA.
Apple iPod: hard drive, 5 GB, 6 ounces, 10 hour battery life, $400
iPod: FireWire ( 32x ), MP3, VBR, WAV, AIFF.
(Firmware upgradable to future formats. Built-in video games. Charges over FireWire.) -
Re:It burns mini CDs...
From the Imation site it sounds like you don't have to hobble the files. " * Record six hours WMA-quality music or three hours of MP3 in less than five minutes." It also sounds like it doesn't do the encoding either - just transfers files from computers.
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Lots of common uses
Amongst common uses of the parallel port besides the standard of printers, there are lots of other devices that attach to them, like scanners and Imation's SuperDisk, which is a device like a ZIP-drive, but that can store 120 MB (maybe newer versions support more). I'm sure you can find other common uses, like control of cars and other electronic devices -- kids do it a lot, controlling something like a car or an electronic arm connected to the parallel port with the adequate software.
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SuperDrive?So they are calling the combo DVD/CD-RW drive a SuperDrive? Does this mean I can insert a Super Disk into it?
I'm a confused consumer. Imation better sue Apple...
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Re:I need 800GB's and 16,000 RPM.Yes! Whether we are ready for it or not, humongous storage capacities are right around the corner. Imation and Lucent Technologies is expected to release the first holographic discs sometime in 2002. Introductory capacities should be in excess of 125GB of removable storage! As the technology matures, holographic storage has the capacity to store nearly a terabyte per cubic cnetimeter. Becuase its holographic, access times will be more than a 1000 times faster than current hard drives.
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Why bother with this?I've been looking for a good digital camera lately and the one I'm really interested in is the Panason ic PV-SD4090. It has a 120MB LS-120 drive in it (from Imation that will also read and write 1.44MB floppies. It
- weighs less
- costs less
- stores slightly less
- let's you delete crap pictures