Article: Plasmon DW 260, the Fastest MO Drive; 2.6GB Magneto Optical Drive with Direct Overwrite.

LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 18, 1996--Plasmon Data Inc. today announced the DW 260 which sets new levels of performance and price in the competitive magneto optical (MO) market.

The DW 260 half-height 5.25" drive benefits from Direct Overwrite technology, known as LIMDOW (Light Intensity Modulation Direct Overwrite). Conventional 5.25" MO drives require 2 passes of the optical disk to write data; the DW 260 only requires a single pass. These new drives are on display at COMDEX for the first time at the Plasmon booth, H617.

The implementation of LIMDOW within the DW 260 dramatically improves the write speed with burst rates of 10MB/s and ...

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