Hello,
I have been fascinated with this technology for the past couple of months. What got me started on this was a scene from the Matrix, where Neo hands the guy that comes to his door a disc. I actually have purchased the exact same model as in the movie, and love it as a little desk prop at work.
Since then I have just been looking for a way to use this format in some fashion. I love cartridge based storage for some reason, it just has a much more mechanical satisfaction than a USB flash drive. I was hoping some of you folks might be able to get me started with some information, as when I have searched for a medium to use, a lot of the drives use SCSI or other non-usb ports. I wanted to use this for data storage.
Is there a USB based drive that can support this storage medium? Is there something similar that might also be as mechanically satisfying as the MO/MD format? I'd prefer if it had an actual platter disc, not something like floppy. I saw Sony made something similar called UMD, but that appears to be a proprietary medium for their PSP and not usable for personal storage.
Is there something newer that I should look into? I really am just looking for any cartridge based storage thats a bit on the smaller side like MO/MD that I can use with a modern computer. Thought this forum would be a good place to start.
Thanks