[Anand]

The 10.1.5 update is supposed to improve support for MO drives. What are these? Are they Pen drives because many of the pen-drives that we have no longer worked in 10.1.4. Sorry for my ignorance.

[hadocon]

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">Originally posted by Anand:
<strong>The 10.1.5 update is supposed to improve support for MO drives. What are these? Are they Pen drives because many of the pen-drives that we have no longer worked in 10.1.4. Sorry for my ignorance.</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">MO drives are Magnetic Optical drives that are becoming less and less common these days. Have you ever heard of Sony's MiniDisc? These are MO drives. Slow and not that big.

My USB drive works great - although maybe a little slow.

[rambo47]

Fujiutsu is the leader in MO drives now. I was looking at one as a Zip replacement about a year ago. The folks at their MWNY booth said "any day now we'll announce the 2.4 GB model". The cartridges only cost about $20 which is much cheaper than Iomega's Jazz cartridges. But after a year I simply lost interest. I do my backup now to a spare internal hard drive.

[Buckaroo]

I own a Fujitsu 1.2 gig MO.

It is great for saving important data with no worries of losing the data.

I don't us it much any more. It's just so much easier and cheaper to save it to a back up hard drive. 120 gig drives cost less than $200.

It's too bad that Sony never made an interface for the Mac, to allow direct digital copying of files (without compression) onto the mini disc. I own one and only use it for recording.