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ORB drives are claimed to be shipping
sumC writes "Those ORB drives are finaly shipping
according to
their manufacturer "
This distributor's website
appears to have them. I tried to phone them, but they're closed
for lunch...
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USB is 12 mbps, not Mbps. Big difference (factor of 8)
No, USB is in fact 12 Mbps (12 Megabits per second). What it is not would be 12 MBps (12 Megabytes per second).
10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10
Posted by Mr. Assembly:
DVD RAM is 5+ Gigs while the orb is only 2+, also DVD RAMs are dropping in price. The only advantage to the orb is transfer rate...
Cool, orb drives are shipping, pigs are flying and the cows came home.
This is a highly improbable week end.
Your comments are quite valid but let me lend some advice to anyone considering buying a parallel-port version of any peripheral ...
...
...
DON'T DO IT.
The parallel port SUCKS, especially for high-speed transfers like these drives provide.
The best you can get is like 2 megabit (NOT megaBYTE) and at that speed your machine becomes completely unusable as 100% of your CPU gets diverted to handling parallel port interrupts
It's really not worth buying a parallel port versions of one of these drives, if you ask me
Well, there are multiple things one might want from a mass-storage device. USB is useful for transferring data to a machine that doesn't have an orb drive. But USB would make it no more useful than a CD-R, which can make much more portable/sharable/cheaper CD-Rs. What you want is some way to get the full speed of the drive, yet the ability to transfer it to another system as needed. Sounds like what is really wanted is a SCSI->USB converter, so you could take a SCSI drive and plug it into USB.
Ooh, a sarcasm detector. Oh, that's a real useful invention.
You need to read more, then post. ~30$
twice the price of a zip, but well under anything else that size.
I want one.
dave
Yes it did. about $30
"In true sound..." -Agents of Good Root
And the Mac, too. I'd buy one, if I didn't already have a 1GB Jaz.
--
Timur "too sexy for my code" Tabi, timur@tabi.org, http://www.tabi.org
I've dropped hard drives down flights of stairs with no negative repercussions.
:)
But then, I always was lucky as hell.
Disks are supposed to retail for $29.95 US or $30 to you and me.
So how long before linux support?
What do you despise? By this are you truly known.
You plan on dropping it to the floor?
--
Aaron Gaudio
"The fool finds ignorance all around him.
"Every man is a mob, a chain gang of idiots." - Jonathan Nolan, Memento Mori
We need to make sure this works with Linux. I'd be the EIDE and the SCSI versions will work out of the box, but the parallel will probably require some reverse engineering. No matter, I already have a Zip disk on the parallel port; the internal EIDE would work fine for me. All I want to make sure is that I can get enough disks so that even if they go out of business (they are a startup, no?), I can still utilize the drive.
Very exciting stuff....
--
Aaron Gaudio
"The fool finds ignorance all around him.
"Every man is a mob, a chain gang of idiots." - Jonathan Nolan, Memento Mori
Did you go to their page? They are planning parallel, internal EIDE (which has supposedly shipped) and internal and external SCSI versions. Nowhere do they mention USB or Firewire versions.
--
Aaron Gaudio
"The fool finds ignorance all around him.
"Every man is a mob, a chain gang of idiots." - Jonathan Nolan, Memento Mori
I wouldn't carry ORB disks around like that anyways...that's what Zip disks are for :-)
--
Aaron Gaudio
"The fool finds ignorance all around him.
"Every man is a mob, a chain gang of idiots." - Jonathan Nolan, Memento Mori
The latest Seagate disk have transfer rates ranging up to 308 Mbit/s.
No, I most certainly did not pull them out of any part of my anatomy.
If you'd bother to actually read what I posted before you decide to spout off, and maybe even think about it for a moment (yes, I know, that's asking an awful lot), you would have noticed that:
So please crawl back under whatever rock you came from.
I have an ~100GB archive (50 DATs) and I'd
love to find an alternative to my DAT robot.
The problems with the DAT are:
1) Slow (~ 300KB/s average in my case)
2) Linear (multi minutes seek time)
3) Unrealiable (I haven't lost data yet, but
often experience wierd behavoirs)
HOWEVER, I typically pay ~$3 par tape which
translate to $1.5/GB. I have yet to find anything
to beat that.
I wanted one of these cheap 2GB external drives like 2 years ago when I first read about them at macweek.com.
Now instead I can look forward to cheaper quantity with DVD-RAM like the cheapie from Creative (there's another good SCSI model from La Cie electronics also).
Open standard formats are good. Anyone want to argue how expensive ZIP and JAZ disks are when compared to blank CD-RW? Iomega still tightly controls prices for Zip disks.
Too bad... I'd like to see SOMETHING replace the "floppy".
Apple has secured a large volume of DVD-RAM and will be pushing it as "the" recordable media for the Macintosh platform. About time...
BCS Online
Damn, I want one now! Have to be patient, paycheck comes next week.
-chad
People think Microsoft is the answer. Microsoft is just the question, "No" is the answer.
I mean it IS a cheap medium and could hold a lot of MP3s... It could even hold 3 full audio CDs in binary form. (More if they are less than 75 minutes each...)
It would also be great for a car MP3 player.
M.
It's not my my words....hince the quotes. That site was linked off of www.slashdot.org and pissed
a lot of people off when they followed the link and couldn't browse back to the article they
were reading. I was just forwarding someone else's comments about the site to you in
the hopes you would take it as constructive critism and change the site's design.
I hope you don't handle all your client relations with this kind of childish un-professionalism.
And yes, this too will be posted to slashdot for another couple thousand un-educated poor
english speaking computer professionals to consider.
Regards,
Scott McDonald
Admin@MyLink.net
-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Cannon
To: Scott McDonald
Date: Friday, February 12, 1999 7:53 PM
Subject: Re:
>That's what I like. A really constructive bit of input. You're english
>teacher would be proud.
>
>Good luck in life.
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Scott McDonald
>To: 'mediamasters@mediaville.com'
>Date: Friday, February 12, 1999 4:34 PM
>
>
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>>www.castlewoodsystems.com
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>>
>>
>>
>>Amen?..
>>
>>"
>>That's one of those sorry assed garlic breathed web sites that tries to
>take control of your browser and refuses to let you leave.
>>
>>Be sure to register your displeasure with their web master.
>>"
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It's not my my words....hince the quotes. That site was linked off of www.slashdot.org and pissed
a lot of people off when they followed the link and couldn't browse back to the article they
were reading. I was just forwarding someone else's comments about the site to you in
the hopes you would take it as constructive critisism and change the site's design.
I hope you don't handle all your client relations with this kind of childish un-professionalism.
And yes, this too will be posted to slashdot for another couple thousand un-educated poor
english speaking computer professionals to consider.
Regards,
Scott McDonald
Admin@MyLink.net
-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Cannon
To: Scott McDonald
Date: Friday, February 12, 1999 7:53 PM
Subject: Re:
>That's what I like. A really constructive bit of input. You're english
>teacher would be proud.
>
>Good luck in life.
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Scott McDonald
>To: 'mediamasters@mediaville.com'
>Date: Friday, February 12, 1999 4:34 PM
>
>
>>
>>www.castlewoodsystems.com
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>Amen?..
>>
>>"
>>That's one of those sorry assed garlic breathed web sites that tries to
>take control of your browser and refuses to let you leave.
>>
>>Be sure to register your displeasure with their web master.
>>"
>>
>>
>
>
Found these guys on Pricewatch. Called 'em up and they said they had some, but had already sold out. Maybe this thing is for real after all.
http://sales.bearkan.com/bcs
EIDE only.
The link worked. The media are 29.95. When will Linux suport this is the better question. They claim support for Windows, Mac, OS/2.
Cheers,
Joshua.
--jon. Postel is dead. May we all mourn his, and our, loss.
Castlewood claim an MTBF 50% better than the competition. From my experiences with the IOMEGA equivalent, that means they should last about 3 months. I don't know how IOMEGA can keep handing out new replacement drives and stay in business. Has anyone seen a JAZ get through its warranty period (out of the box, and in use, that is)?
Yuck... USB? Not exactly the kind of speed one wants to talk to a 2.2 gig storage mechanism...
Oops, they're 2.2GB, not 1GB, so that's 200+4*30=320, which compares pretty decently with a 10GB harddrive, and it's portable media.
I tried to read their web page. Broken links
and dead java, right and left. Tried to write
postmaster and webmaster. Both bounced, with
cutesy error messages. Looked up their site with
whois, sent messages there. Bounced.
So all the glitz works, but none of the basics.
And they're claiming 300,000hr MTBF on a tech
that won't ship until 3rd quarter 1999.
Right. Forget this one, folks.