The Olympus Power MO 2600 is 2.6 Gig, but it may not be available yet.
John
Tomoko Yamamoto wrote:
> Morgan Sparks wrote:
> >I read a review about a year ago which mentioned that
> >the Olympus 230 MO Drive was compatible with the "new 640MB media." I
> >haven't looked around to see if these disks are readily available, or
> >how fast/slow they access, but the capacity is up there with CD's. Has
> >anyone seen or used 640's?
> I am pretty sure that the Olympus 230 MO disks are compatible with the 640MB
> drive, but not the other way around. The MO drive has an international
> standard, which makes it possible to use your 230 or other capacity disks in
> another MO drive manufactured by another company with equal size or larger.
>
> Although Olympus America does not seem to sell a 640MB MO drive, Olympus Japan
> has a few models of 640MB MO drives, internal and external portable models.
> Pricewise, Olympus' MO drives are much more expensive even in Japan and I have
> seen on the Internet cheaper MO drives made by Japanese companies who are not
> exporting their products to the US. I should also add that Olympus Japan has
> three models of external 230 drives, each in two colors, black and white.
> Although consumers cater to Zip, Jaz, and Syquest drives, the publishing
> industry seems to be using optical drives because of their use of huge piles
> of
> graphic files. At least one publisher I was in contact with said that they
> would use a 2 GB optical disk, but I was relieved to find out that they would
> receive my graphic file on a Zip disk.
>
> Tomoko Yamamoto
> mailto:tomokoy@xxxxxxxxx
> http://www.charm.net/~tomokoy/
>
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