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Magneto-Optical Drives Reviewed

Posted by timothy on from the yesterday's-tech-today dept.

MikShapi writes "Tom's Hardware is running an informative article about Fujitsu's new Magneto-Optical drives and the MO technology in general. Is the caddy finally back to put an end to scratched Disks?"

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  1. I remember by Sir+Haxalot · · Score: 2, Informative

    floptical (basically a floppy disk which uses an optical tracking mechanism to improve the positioning accuracy of an ordinary magnetic head, thereby allowing more tracks and greater density.) drives etc very well, they had poor read and write performance and bad reliability. Although these new drives seem to give better reliability, their speed seems to be just as poor. I'd give it a miss and buy one of these beauties.

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    1. Re:I remember by after · · Score: 1, Informative

      If I am right, you are talking about the 100MB capacity floppy disks. Not sure if this is what you are talking about, but if it is... yes, some times ago, in the NES 8 Bit age, these things were quite popular. They were slow too. I dont know if these were acual floppy diskcs, but they acualy *did* have 100 MB storage capacity and they *did* work in a floppy drive (I saw this done once by my friend, only once, on his IRIX at work)

  2. Re:MO Drives. by Detritus · · Score: 2, Informative

    They are already in use. I've seen them in medical equipment and in workstations used for data analysis. One of their advantages over CD-R and DVD-R is that they can be treated like a normal disk. There is no burning, finalizing, multiple sessions, etc.

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  3. Yup. by theTerribleRobbo · · Score: 2, Informative

    Here's a nice link for those who have no clue what you're talking about:

    What IS the "Click of Death"?