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Technology Stocks : Castlewood Systems -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: 777 Captain who wrote (33)	5/18/1999 10:51:00 AM
From: eric larson	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 38

Oh oh, two-weeks later: "...all the data...suddenly became inaccessible..." boards.fool.com " A couple of weeks ago, beginning at post 21205 on May 3, I wrote about a friend who had acquired an OEM Orb drive and installed it on his computer. Yesterday, he told me: "don't buy an Orb drive." It seems that all the data he had been storing suddenly became inaccessible. He doesn't know whether it's the media (which has been observed to be delicate) or the drive itself (I have read here that there are engineering issues involving the heads). Just thought you all might like to know." (05/18/99) ------ Initial response from the same user of ORB product: boards.fool.com "there is a new product out which gives me real cause for concern as a competitor which could really hurt IOM. A new company called Castlewood has a product out called the Orb drive, which uses 2.2 gig removable media, which costs $30 for the media and $199 for the drive. It has a 12 MB/sec transfer rate. An acquaintance of mine obtained an OEM version of this new product and has it running on his computer. It works fine, he says." (05/03/99) ---- "ORB #1 SELLER At PCMALL!!!!"