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Non-Tech : The New Iomega '2000' Discussion Group -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: D.J.Smyth who wrote (2040)	7/30/1999 4:48:00 PM
From: Rocky Reid	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 5023

Amazing New Mag-Optical Drive for Digicams: steves-digicams.com Followup On Sanyo, Olympus, Hitachi Cooperation To Develop New 730MB Storage Device Thanks to the Imaging-Resource for this information. More on Sanyo, Olympus, Hitachi cooperation! Following on from an article we published on Tuesday regarding a new media standard for digital cameras that Sanyo, Olympus and Hitachi were working on, we can now elaborate further with details from an article on the excellent PC Watch website in Japan. The new magneto-optical disk format is known as 'iD', and is based on a 50mm diameter optical disk, and using a blue laser and MANMOS (magnetic expansion reproduction) methods to bring the capacity per disk to 730MB. The disks can be written to at speeds in excess of 20Mbps, and can be re-written in excess of 1 million times. They also have a life of 100 years or more. Similar to a floppy disk, the magneto-optical disk itself is protected by a metal flap which slides away, and the overall cartridge weighs 13 grams and measures 59.5 x 56.5 x4.8 millimeters. The standard also defines file formats to be used on the disk as well as the media itself. Sanyo hopes to have cameras using the technology on the market by next summer. --- Holy Cow! 20Mb/sec? That's about 2.5 MB/sec! That completely blows away Iomega's Bomb! Iomega is just stuck using old, dead technology.