Rumor has it that Mark may have mentioned these words:
>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
disks
>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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Received on Tue Jul 31 2001 - 16:42:40 BST