Architosh Staff (info@architosh.com)

28 July 2001

MWNY: Fujitsu Computer's new MO Products

At Expo we had the opportunity of speaking with the Fujitsu folks about their new FireWire-based MO (magnetic-optical) storage products. The company had announced its new line with 2.3GB capacity drives.

Fujitsu's new 2.3 GB IDE drive nearly doubles the capacity of its predecessor (1.3 GB line of drives) and is backward compatible (full read and write) with all 3.5-inch MO media (includes 1.3 GB, 640MB, 540MB, 230MB, and 128MB disks). The new 2.3 GB drive will be available in August from Fujitsu Computer Products of America's MO home page, http://www.MOstorage.com.

Fujitsu is Ready for Mac OS X Platform

Fujitsu Computer Products of America is comitted to the Macintosh OS X platform with a full line of products. Fujitsu drives offer full native support for Apple's Mac OS X platform across FireWire, USB and IDE interface technologies.

The Fujitsu MO Advantage

So what's so great about MO technology? The question is a good one. And the answer we got is that MO technology has advantages where neither pure optical or pure magnetic technology can go. MO of course is a hybrid technology. It has all of the advantages of optical disks like CD-R—lage, stable storage space—combined with the flexibility, quick re-writability and fast read-ability of a magnetic hard drive disk. Data can be over-written countless times yet the data on the disk is safe for over a decade.

MO technology is super dependable. Fujitsu's MO drives are backed with a lifetime warranty. Dust, liquids and magnetic fields do not affect data stored on MO disks and MO drives are built to be tolerant of rugged environments and tough shocks.

MO drives are the storage medium of choice for the medical field and are used in government and financial markets. With that type of industry-proven reliability and fast seek times, data transfer rates and 8MB buffers MO drives are ideal for audio, video, and intensive graphics and 3D application, in addition to running applications directly off the MO disks.

New Fujitsu Drives - Attracive Enclosure

The new Fujitsu DynaMO 1.3GB drive comes in FireWire, USB, SCSI and ATAPI interface models and features a handsome slim enclosure. Other drives include Macworld Expo specials for the DynaMO 1300FE FireWire 1.3GB MO drive and the DynaMA 640SF+USB SCSI & USB 1.3GB drives.