Sony 5.25" Magneto Optical Media - Rewritable - 9.1GB - 14x

Product Name : 5.25" Magneto Optical Media
Manufacturer Part Number : EDM9100C
Manufacturer : Sony Corporation
Brand Name : Sony
Product Type : Rewritable

Physical Characteristics

Storage Capacity

Details

To achieve 9.1GB storage capacity, Sony's 5.25 MO disk employs MSR (Magnetically induced Super Resolution) and Land & Groove Recording technologies. This enormous capacity is 14 times the 650MB of Sony's first-generation MO disk.

Sony's wide-margin media is designed to be highly tolerant of variations in laser power that may occur in different usage environments. Performance stability is further assured by Sony's high-precision stamper and substrate molding technology.

With data integrity maintained over at least one million erase/write cycles and a data-read life estimated at more than 50 years, Sony 5.25 MO media is highly suited to long-term data archiving.

Sony uses its own rugged cartridge design and mechanical components to achieve durability of at least 100,000 load/unload cycles per side. Sony's original antistatic hard coat treatment reduces static buildup and protects the disk surface from scratches and dust.

With MSR (Magnetically-induced Super-Resolution) technology, the recorded magnetic domain at the center of the laser spot is selectively heated to transfer its data individually to a special readout layer. This makes it possible to distinguish magnetic data that is much smaller than laser beam spot size.

Besides writing data in the grooves like a conventional disk, this format uses the "lands" between the grooves as well. Land & groove recording creates two spiral data tracks to dramatically raise data density and disk capacity.

With its high-speed random access and massive storage capacity, the 5.25 MO lends itself to a wide variety of applications. MO drives can be easily connected to PCs and workstations including LAN and Web servers to handle computer graphics, CAD/CAM, X-ray and ultra-sound medical images, non-linear audio/video editing, and government agency or library document archiving. Other popular applications include large-scale libraries and jukeboxes that depend on high-speed disk changes.

Manufacturer's Part#: EDM9100B2
Product Dimensions: 6 Inches x 5.5 Inches x 0.5 Inches
Weight: 0.4 Lbs

Features:
General Information
- Marketing Information: The special features of the 5.25-inch MO disk, namely its high-speed random access and massive storage capacity, make it suitable for a wide variety of applications. In addition to its use as an external storage device on PCs and work stations, it may also be used for LAN and Web servers, computer graphics, CAD/CAM, storage of X- ray and ultra- sound wave images, etc., non- linear audio/video editing, and document archiving by government offices and libraries. It may also be used for large-scale libraries and juke boxes that require high-speed disk changes.
- Package Quantity: 1 Pack

Technical Information
- Media Type: Magneto Optical
- Storage Capacity: 9.1GB (Native)
- Write Speed: 14x
- Recording Format: 4096 Bytes/sector
- Storage/Archival Life: 50 Year(s)

Environmental Conditions
- Temperature: 41 to 131°F (Operating), 14 to 131°F (Storage), -10 to 55°C (Storage)
- Humidity: 3 to 85% (Operating), 3 to 90% Absolute Humidity (Storage)

Physical Characteristics
- Form Factor: 5.25"
- Dimensions: 5.31" x 6.02" x 0.43"
- Shipping Dimensions: 0.5" (Height) x 5.5" (Width) x 6.00" (Depth)
- Weight: 0.36 lb
- Shipping Weight: 0.40 lb

Miscellaneous
- Additional Information: - 1PK 5.25IN 9.1GB Rewritable Magneto Optical 14X 4K B/S

- High-speed Sony MO disks spin at hard-disk speeds, so files can be accessed in milliseconds

- Non-contact read/write and Sony materials science gives a 50-year archival life with over 10 million read/write cycles and 1 billion reads

- Read cycles: Over 1 Billion

- Erase/write/read cycles: Over 10 Million

- Load/unload cycles: Over 100 Thousand