Where can I buy 640MB optical disks?

[NeoPTLD]

Where can I buy 640MBoptical disk for a reasonable price?

You can't find this in electronics store and the very few store who offers them online wants an arm and a leg.

 

[BBond]

Provantage
has a Fuji 5-pack for $31.80.

I've never ordered from Provantage and I don't use magneto-optical disks but from my search this seems to be a good price.

 

[KK]

I'm curious to what's the purpose of this is, and why you wouldn't choose another option?

 

[NeoPTLD]

Because it can be used just like a zip disk without crashing. Zip drives are notorious.

 

[oogabooga]

is that for regular floppy drives no right? how much is the drive you need to use that thing?

 

[ViRGE]

Magneto-optical storage @ Wikipedia.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Good luck finding any, at least in the US. Possibly more luck in japan. I had a 120/230MB SCSI M-O drive, it was great. The disks are the size of a fat 3.5" floppy, store as much as a Zip, and are nearly indestructable. If you really want to archive some data, put it on an M-O disk in a caddy. I was given the drive for free, and I had a bit of trouble finding blank media. I found some under a several-millimeter-thick layer of dust at a retail store once, the SKU was no longer in their inventory system even. I got them for cheap, but that was .. years ago. 640MB M-O are probably still in use, somewhere, so you might have better luck with that size. Perhaps you could get in touch with a Fuji distributor?

 

[Lyfer]

Why not cd-rw's?

$.50 per disc.

 

[NeoPTLD]

Originally posted by: Lyfer
Why not cd-rw's?

$.50 per disc.

CD-RWs are not reliable

 

[Gunbuster]

you archiving data or just moving it from pc to pc?

 

[batmanuel]

Originally posted by: NeoPTLD

Originally posted by: Lyfer
Why not cd-rw's?

$.50 per disc.

CD-RWs are not reliable

I'd use a DVD+RW then. They have better error correction that CDs, and the capacity for backing up a large chunk of your data all at once. I've been using my DVD+RW disks with Roxio Drag to Disk for backups and they have never let me down yet. Much cheaper than MO.