Pinnacle Micro's APEX 4.6 GB Optical Drive

Description

With the introduction of the Apex 4.6 GB Optical hard Drive, the crossover in storage technology has begun. Without question, optical is inherently superior to magnetic technology. Hard drives crash, lack easy portability, are of fixed capacity and must be periodically backed up. Pinnacle's revolutionary Apex 4.6 MB signals the dawn of a new era in computer storage. The Apex is faster than the average hard drive (data throughput 6 MB/sec max), yet offers lower cost-per-megabyte than hard drives of equal size with its enormous 4.6 Gigabyte capacity per removable disk. The Apex guarantees virtually endless capacity - just add another disk. Removable media allows for convenient portability as well as data security. Boasting a thirty-year shelf life, the Apex's reliability and durability makes magnetic hard drives obsolete. The Apex is a hard disk replacement or can be used as a hard disk expansion to your computer system. Today's powerful and advanced software applications consume huge amounts of storage capacity, and this trend will surely continue in the years to come. Thus the ideal storage devices of the future must offer unlimited expandability, utilizing removable and portable media, with exceptional reliabity and affordability. Whether you need a storage device for graphics and desktop publishing, digital audio or digital video, data archiving, or just general data storage, the Apex offers the best combination of price and performance available, The Apex is available in a cool, stylish external case, including LCD display.

General Specifactions

• Type Magneto -Optical / Rewritable Optical
• Internal Data Rate 5.9 - 2.5 MBytes/sec
• Controller Interface SCSI-1, Fast SCSI-2
• Driver/Receiver Single Ended

Transfer Rate

• Raw Date Rate: 6 MB/Sec Max
• Synchronous Burst 10.0 MB/Sec
• Synchronous Sustained 4.5 MB/Sec ( internal, SCSI Overhead not included)
• Asynchronous Burst 5 MB/sec
• Asynchronous Sustained 4.5 MB/Sec ( internal, SCSI Overhead not included)

• Data Processor AMD 80C186 @ 33 MHz
• Cache 5ize 1 Megabyte
• Installation Horzontal or Vertical Placement 5 degrees or less

MEDIA

Rotational Speed

• 3,052 RPM 7X
• 3,755 RPM 4X
• 3,755 RPM 3X

Seek Time 1/3 Stroke

• 3X, 4X:17 msec
• 7X: 19 msec

Recording methods :

• Direct Overwrite: Using Light Intensity Modulation Method technology to erase and overwrite in one pass
• Magneto-Optics ( traditional two pass writing of M-O), used for WORM and M-O

• Disk Diameter 130 mm (5.25")
• Recording Area 26.00-63.00 mm - Formatted area
• Recording Area 26.50-62.80 mm - User area
• Cartridge ANSI/ISO/ECMA 130 mm cartridge
• Substrate 120 mm,polycarbonate
• Double sided
• Sector Sizes 512 Byte 1024 Byte

DIMENSIONS

• (Width x Depth x Height) 213 x 270 x 74
• Weight 5.6 lbs

For further information contact DataSure Services at (604)598-6831, 1-800-598-6831or email mackinnn@datasure.com or,

Pinnacle Micro 1-800-553-7070, (714) 727-3300, Fax (714) 727-1913 or tech@pinnacle-micro.com

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