In its early days, some MO disks were proprietary. Nowadays both the 3.5in and 5.25in disk types are governed by ISO standards and any compliant disk will work in any MO drive - providing the drive is compatible with that capacity. … [Read more...]
Hard Disk Compliment
The next step up in capacity, 500MB to 1GB, is enough to back-up a reasonably large disk partition. Most such devices also offer good enough performance to function as secondary, if slow, hard disks. Magnetic and MO technology again predominates, … [Read more...]
Super Floppies
The 200MB to 300MB range is best understood as super-floppy territory. This is about double the capacity of the would-be floppy replacements with performance more akin to a hard disk than a floppy disk drive. … [Read more...]
Floppy Disc Replacements
With today's hard disks measured in gigabytes, and with multimedia and graphics file sizes often measured in tens of megabytes, a capacity of 100MB to 150MB is just right for taking over the traditional functions of a floppy disk - moving a few … [Read more...]
Phase Change Technology
Panasonic's PD system, boasting the company's own patented phase-change technology, has been around since late 1995. Considered innovative at the time, the PD drive combines an optical disk drive capable of handling 650MB capacity disks along with a quad-speed CD-ROM … [Read more...]
Florescent Disc Technology
Another contender in the battle to become the de facto high-density storage medium for the digital world could come from US data storage specialist, C3D, in the shape of its revolutionary optical storage technology that promises to deliver … [Read more...]
OSD Data Storage Technology
Optical Super Density (OSD) technology's design goals were to develop a high capacity (40GB or more) removable MO drive which retained the ruggedness and reliability offered by today's ISO-standard MO solutions, achieve data transfer rates … [Read more...]
MO Media
An MO disk is constructed by spattering a number of films onto a high-strength polycarbonate resin substrate base - the same material as used in bullet-proof glass - and coating the entire disk with an ultra-violet hardened protective resin. … [Read more...]
LIMDOW Data Storage
Light Intensity Modulated Direct OverWrite technology uses a different write technology which significantly improves on the performance levels of earlier MO devices and claims to be a viable alternative to hard disk drives in terms of … [Read more...]
Magneto-optical drives – MO technology
As implied by the name, these drives use a hybrid of magnetic and optical technologies, employing laser to read data on the disk, while additionally needing magnetic field to write data. An MO disk drive is so designed that an inserted disk will be exposed to a magnet on the label side … [Read more...]