magneto-optical drive

The magneto-optical drive manufactured by Canon was used as the primary mass storage device.

To write the data onto the disk, the Magneto-optical drive's laser pulses between two powers.

Moreover, the arrival of magneto-optical drive technology has been greeted with more than a little skepticism in some quarters.

A Magneto-optical drive is a disk drive for computers.

There were (and are) however some magneto-optical drives and media with the same form factor that don't have this limitation.

By default, Magneto-optical drives verify information after writing it to the disc, and are able to report any problems to the operating system immediately.

Magneto-optical drive - combines Optical and Magnetic technologies to store data.

Currently, the most advanced 5 1/4-inch Winchester drives store more than 700 megabytes of data, which is competitive with the new magneto-optical drives.

For a student or academic researcher, the Next computer will offer the ability to retrieve instantly previously unattainable volumes of information stored on its magneto-optical drive.

Industry experts are also split over whether the magneto-optical drive will replace the CD-ROM.

Magneto-optical drive (magneto-optical storage), a data storage medium.

Some of the full-size Powerbooks also allow the user to pop out the diskette drive and replace it with another device, like a magneto-optical drive.

In the 1980s, a class of mass storage device called the magneto-optical drive became commercially available which used essentially the same technique for writing data to a disk.

Magneto-optical drive (MO)

Magneto-optical drives should not be confused with Floptical drives, which likewise combine ferromagnetic and optical technologies, albeit in a different manner.

The magneto-optical drive was replaced with a 2.88 MB floppy drive to offer users a way to use their floppy disks.

A magneto-optical drive is a kind of optical disc drive capable of writing and rewriting data upon a magneto-optical disc.

PDO Konica Minolta was the last manufacturer of 90 mm 3.5" magneto-optical drives.

This used Light Intensity Modulated Direct OverWrite technology to achieve an increased level of performance over previous magneto-optical drives.

Fujitsu was a major manufacturer of 90 mm magneto-optical drives, exceeding 2 GB in capacity, but they have discontinued production and sale of this product category.

It boasted 100 megabytes of ram, an HDTV monitor and optical disk storage, possibly based on the NeXTcube's magneto-optical drive.

In 1986 they launched Write-Once optical discs (WO) and in 1988 launched Magneto-optical drives which were around 125MB size for the specific use of archival data storage.

LIMDOW disks and drives work on the same basic principle as a standard Magneto-optical drive: the write surface is heated up and takes on a magnetic force applied from outside.

But if the magneto-optical drives are to be used widely, analysts said, they must drop in price and prove they are as reliable performers as the hard disks and as easy to manufacture.

With the magneto-optical drives, which can store up to one billion bytes, or one gigabyte of data, information can be altered repeatedly at will, just as it can with floppy disks or hard disks.