Castlewood ORB 2.2GB SCSI INT REMOVABLE ( ORB2SI01A ) |  |
Brand: Castlewood Systems
Category: CE
Buy New: $14.99
Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Media: Electronics
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 9 x 6.5 x 6.3
Warranty: 1 year warranty
MPN: ORB2SI01A
Model: ORB2SI01A
UPC: 666411000482
EAN: 0666411000482
ASIN: B00006BAE0
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Product Description
ORB line includes high-performance removable media drives that use revolutionary magnetoresistive (MR) head technology. Considered the standard by which other storage devices are compared, Castlewood's ORB provides a substantial increase in capacity, performance and reliability, it offers endless storage possibilities at twice the speed and less than half the cost of any other product in its class. Today, ORB offers versatility and superiority to users of applications such as CAD/CAM, graphic design, publishing and multimedia presentations including digital graphics, photography, music and video.ORB plays a key role in broad-based consumer and business markets as many more devices become digital and internet-enabled. ORB is a universal storage medium that can transfer information between a broad range of digital based products including TVs, VCRs, Web TV, Theater PC, set-top boxes and telephone systems. Using revolutionary MR technology, ORB makes merging PC functionality with consumer electronics a reality. ORB lets you transfer information between a broad range of digital based products with unprecedented convenience, flexibility and high speed.
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Fast backups, easy to use, expensive disks December 7, 2002
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I have used this for over 2 years. Apart from one faulty disk, which was replaced foc. I have had no reliability issues at all.
The drive was easy to install. I have a 500 MHz AMD K6-2 system, with 2 SCSI and one IDE hard drive.
I am using an Adaptec AHA-2940W SCSI-2 PCI adapter
I get data transfer rates of about 7Mbyte/sec, according to the Adaptec SCSIbench utility. This compares with 3.5Mbyte/sec for an old CONNER CP30540 hard drive, and 9Mbyte/sec for a SEAGATE Barracuda SX19171.The speed and size of the 2.2GByte disks facilitates the chore of doing backups. I also find it a useful way of transferring very large files between PCs that are not networked. These ORB drives are way better than burning CDs or ZIP drives if you have a lot of data, and they are way faster than tape backups.
My only gripe is that the price of the disks, at about $40 each, has not declined at anything like the rate of hard drives in the last 2 years. They also do not seem to be readily available in all stores.
Fast, efficient backup system. Disks are a bit pricey. December 2, 2002
I have used this for over 2 years. Apart from one faulty disk, which was replaced foc. I have had no reliability issues at all.
The drive was easy to install. I have a 500 MHz AMD K6-2 system, with 2 SCSI and one IDE hard drive.
I am using an Adaptec AHA-2940W SCSI-2 PCI adapter
I get data transfer rates of about 7Mbyte/sec, according to the Adaptec SCSIbench utility. This compares with 3.5Mbyte/sec for an old CONNER CP30540 hard drive, and 9Mbyte/sec for a SEAGATE Barracuda SX19171.The speed and size of the 2.2GByte disks facilitates the chore of doing backups. I also find it a useful way of transferring very large files between PCs that are not networked. These ORB drives are way better than burning CDs or ZIP drives if you have a lot of data, and they are way faster than tape backups.
My only gripe is that the price of the disks, ..., has not declined at anything like the rate of hard drives in the last 2 years. They also do not seem to be readily available in all stores.
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