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Castlewood ships ORB 5.7GB, new Combo 2.2GB

updated 07:30 pm EST, Mon November 12, 2001

 
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Castlewood today announced its "4 in 1" combination FireWire 2.2GB drive as well as shipment of its new ORB 5.7GB drives.

Castlewood's "4 in 1" combination FireWire 2.2GB drive offers four interfaces in a single drive, including PCMCIA, USB1.1 and SCSI connectivity through the purchase of optional cables. The $250 drive offers a 12.2 MB/second maximum sustained data transfer rate and is bundled with 2.2GB disk, interface cable, power supply, user manual, installation software and ORB FireWire Tools software for both Mac and PC. Cartridges are $30.

Castlewood is now shipping its next generation of its ORG 5.7GB, a removable media-based drive that offers 5.7GB storage per cartridge. It is available with both an EIDE interface (no pricing available; shipping now) and a $400 FireWire/USB 1.1 combo version, which is due in December. Cartridges for the next-generation Orb 5.7GB are $60 each.


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  1. \0

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    okay, has anyone...

    ...used one of their older drives? i could never find a review of them. in fact, i don't know anyone who even bought them, especially with the resurgence of cd-rw's as a cheap and easily accessible media.

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    Run Away...

    I had one which I used a few times over the course of many months (primarily for backup purposes). It broke a few days after the warranty ran out. The speed of the drive is tempting, but unless their reliability has improved dramatically, I wouldn't touch one with a 10 foot pole.

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    i know...

    a few people who have an Orb drive. I'd get one (much cheaper than Iomega's Jazz) but i'm saving my money for an external Firewire drive.

    cd-rw making a resurgence? sorry, not for me. i need to backup gigabyte's of data, not a few hundred megabytes.

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    CDRW

    Floppy disk of the new century, but not as useful.

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    Orb drives got a bad rap

    I've got a SCSI Orb drive and it works wonderfully - I was pleasantly surprised when the disks mounted without need for drivers in OS X. Castlewood screwed themselves with a whole lot of crappy drivers and firmware updates back when the Orb was just getting off the ground, many of which rendered the drives and/or the disks unusable, but things have gotten much better since. It still bothers me that they have such a terrible web site that seems to never get updated, but I would rather have good equipment and a bad web site than the other way around.

    A side note... I got a Mac-something or Something-Mac catalog in the mail this summer which heralded the introduction of these 5.7GB suckers, and here we are months later when they actually hit the shelves... very interesting... :)

    -MacOS761

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    IÕve got one, too.

    I sold my jaz 1GB with three cartridges for $300, then turned around and bought an ORB 2.2GB and three cartridges for around $250. IÕve been using them for backup for about two years, now, and I certainly wouldnÕt go back to a jaz! (WAY too expensive.)

    As for CD-RWÕs, I use them, too. ItÕs just a matter of how much you want to store in one place, and how often you need to update it. (ORBs are awesome, if you use Connectix CopyAgent or Dantz Retrospect Express!)

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    Orb in OS X ?

    Hello, MacOS761

    I have a SCSI Orb drive too but have NOT been able to mount disks in OS X (10.1). Disks are formatted using latest version of Hard Disk SpeedTools.

    Any ideas?

    Bill

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    compared to Peerless?

    Hmmm, Iomega Peerless drives cost $249 for the firewire base station and $199 for 20GB "cartridges". At $60 per 5.7GB cart and $400 drive, the Peerless drive may actually come out cheaper!

    Let's see, at $199 for 20GB, you're looking at $9.95/GB for Peerless and at $60 for 5.7GB, $10.50/GB for Orb. So for the media costs, you're paying a little more for Orb. On top of that, drives cost $400 for the Orb and now you're much higher than the Peerless.

    (Of course, the $400 Orb is dual Usb/Firewire so that offsets the cost a little because the Firewire Peerless is Firewire only. But then for $249 you can get the USB base and for $89 you get the Firewire module, overall, still lower than $400 for the Orb drive.) And with the lower price per drive, it makes it easier to share the drives among business associates, coworkers, even friends.

    To seal the deal, because Peerless is really just IBM laptop hard drives encased in Iomega electronics and plastics, there's a much greater chance of Peerless eventually upping the sizes to 30 and 40 GB once the wholesale prices for those drives fall into Iomega's profit margins and business plan.

    (Even still, Peerless is very expensive. An 80GB Buslink Firewire drive goes for around $300 or around $3.50/GB, much cheaper than either solution.)

  1. fastamx79

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    ORB Drive 2.2GB

    I goto Columbia College in Chicago, and we use ORB drives on the G4s for doing ProTools. They give nothing but problems. You cant save direct (too slow to keep up) also pulling files from it to the local Hard Drive, 80% of the time it won't work. Just my 2 cents

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    Are they hiring?

    I'm looking for a Mac support job, and Columbia college would be a great fit for me....

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