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Where can I buy 640MB optical disks?

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.

 
I'm curious to what's the purpose of this is, and why you wouldn't choose another option?
 
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?
 
Originally posted by: NeoPTLD
Originally posted by: Lyfer
Why not cd-rw's?🙂

$.50 per disc.
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CD-RWs are not reliable
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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.

 
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