31 Jul
2001
31 Jul
'01
9:42 a.m.
Rumor has it that Mark may have mentioned these words:
disks
On Tue, 24 Jul 2001 Jerome Fine wrote:
You can probably leave data alone for much longer than
5 years. Various MO
media manufacturers quote media lifetimes of 30, 50 or 100 years. Of course
they probably all use different criteria to come up with a lifetime figure...
The disks with my MaxOptix Tahiti 1 drive (500M/side) were listed with a
30-year lifetime... if that helps...
If anyone ever
sees a Sony SMO S501 for $ US 20 or less, please send it
to me and I will always appreciate and accept it and pay you for the drive
and shipping in the US and Canada. Shipping from Europe is still too
expensive.
Pretty much any ISO standard 5.25" MO drive will work with the 600/650MB that the SMO-S501 uses; you are not restricted to that
particular drive.
I'd love to find one (or a few) of the 3.5" 128Meg (or 256Meg) drives for
my classic computing needs - great archival capabilities, and with
8-bitters, you don't really worry much about the speed...
The only thing you have to watch for with the 5.25" drives is sector size.
The 600Meg platters are 512-byte sectors, IIRC the 650Meg platters are
2048-byte sectors [[but don't quote me]]... 650Meg disks will *not* work in
a 600Meg drive, but thankfully my MaxOptics takes it's "special" 1G disks,
but also reads/writes to the 600Meg disks. (which is good, because the 1G
disk seemed to be bad. It wouldn't format without a *lot* of bad sectors.)
HTH,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
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