Castlewood Orb Drivers For Mac

• Castlewood Orb Drivers For Macbook Pro
• Castlewood Orb Drivers For Mac Windows 10

BARE FEATS asks:
What is 3 timesfaster than a Zip and holds 3 times as much as aCD?
Bare Feats speed test of the newORB 2 gigabyte removable (SCSI) posted 8/21/99.
Updated 8/27/99 withresults from Orb connnected to Grappler 906 controller.
Updated 9/7/99 with Jaz 1 gig results and the Orb connnected to anInitio Miles Bluenote controller.
© 1999 Rob Art Morgan, editor of BARE FEATS
rob-art@barefeats.com

• Castlewood ORB Firmware 2.2 is a third party application that provides additional functionality to OS X system and enjoys a popularity among Mac users. However, instead of installing it by dragging its icon to the Application folder, uninstalling Castlewood ORB Firmware 2.2 may need you to do more than a simple drag-and-drop to the Trash.
• Castlewood ORB USB; Castlewood Traveler Diskette- ParAllel Port; Welcome to the Help Drivers, driver downloads for backups Castlewood. HelpDrivers offers drivers that support both currently shipping and obsolete backups Castlewood, which are only available from this site. To find a driver, utilities, manual, firmaware and BIOS for your.
• Castlewood also offers a 5.7-Gbyte internal drive option, minus the flexibility of the additional interfaces. Castlewood's 2.2GB cartridge costs $60.00, according to a spokesperson.
• The question I asked was if my Mac Mini with OS 10.6.5 is capable of reading an ORB disk using the ORB SCSI external disk drive with the SCSI to USB (Castlewood ORB USB) Smart Cable. I gather from his reply that 'Mike the MacMedic' does not have any experience using the ORB disk drive setup with a Mac computer using OS 10.

Castlewood Systems' groundbreaking SCSI ORB drive (see my review) has been plagued with many software problems; most of these revolve around the Prosoft driver that Castlewood supplies with the ORB. For a while, the 1.2.6 version of the Prosoft driver appeared to.

Two gigabyte removable storage with 'hard drive' speed for $199? And only $30 per 2 gig cartridge? Sounds too good to be true? Check out the results of my speed tests:

(Note the speed difference below usingthree different SCSI controllers on the Orb.)

Here's an interesting test. I burned a CD with a bunch of files. Then I dropped the same folders on the Orb drive. Obviously, CD-ROM's make more reliable backup media but they are limited to 650MB. The Orb presents an interesting alternative for backing up a big chuck of data in a big hurry.

For reliability, it's hard to beat a CD-ROM burner but the Orb is an interesting alternative for quick backup or transfer of data by the gigabyte.

READER QUESTIONS & COMMENTS

• QUESTION: 'How about the 2 gig Jaz drive?'
  ANSWER: I didn't have a 2 gig Jaz to test, although I would be happy to test one when if Iomega sends me one. They claim an average sustained transfer rate of 7.4MB/sec. I don't know how they came up with that figure but I bet it includes the use of their recommended optional Ultra SCSI controller. Even if it was equal in speed to the Orb, it costs more ($450 with controller vs $200) and the cartridges cost a lot more ($125 vs $30). And read these links about unreliable Jaz cartridges and unimpressive speed.
• QUESTION: 'Do you plan to keep the Orb? Do you recommend it?'
  ANSWER: I've decided to keep it. It saved my bacon when my wife's PowerBook refused to boot. I booted from my 8.6 CD but was able to run Norton from the Orb. Even after fixing the directory, things were degrading fast, with corrupted files and all. I was able to quickly back up over 1 gig of critical project data to the Orb before the internal hard drive became completely compromised. I've also used the Orb as a 'staging area' for a special collection of applications and documents before burning on a CD-ROM, thereby not disturbing the organization of my regular hard drive.
• COMMENT: Orb scsi manual says the following:
  'CAUTION! For best data integrity, DO NOT connect your ORB SCSI Drive on the same SCSI chain as scanners, printers or devices other than hard drives, CD-ROMs and DVD-ROMs.'

  Test Configurations & Procedures

Now don't go saying it's unfair to test on different computers. Even when running the same drive on a 266MHz vs 466MHz Beige G3, there was less than a 10% difference in MacBench and no significant difference in the HDT test. The big difference is seen by changing the type of SCSI controller.

• All drives were reformatted before the tests were run.
• MacBench 5.0 attempts to simulate a mix of real world disk operations. The disk cache was set to 512K instead of the default setting to minimize effects of caching.
• FWB's Hard Disk Tookit has an excellent Bench Test module that can give accurate information on Sustained Read/Write, Random Read/Write, Transactions/Second, etc. (There's a special price of $35.95 if you go to the Special Order page and inter '6sum99' in the discount code field.)

...Interex for the use of the CarrierZIF G3/400

...MacGurus for the use of the Initio Miles Bluenote Fast SCSI-2 Card

BARE FEATS asks:
What is 3 timesfaster than a Zip and holds 3 times as much as aCD?
Bare Feats speed test of the newORB 2 gigabyte removable (SCSI) posted 8/21/99.
Updated 8/27/99 withresults from Orb connnected to Grappler 906 controller.
Updated 9/7/99 with Jaz 1 gig results and the Orb connnected to anInitio Miles Bluenote controller.
© 1999 Rob Art Morgan, editor of BARE FEATS
rob-art@barefeats.com

• Castlewood ORB Firmware 2.2 is a third party application that provides additional functionality to OS X system and enjoys a popularity among Mac users. However, instead of installing it by dragging its icon to the Application folder, uninstalling Castlewood ORB Firmware 2.2 may need you to do more than a simple drag-and-drop to the Trash.
• Castlewood ORB USB; Castlewood Traveler Diskette- ParAllel Port; Welcome to the Help Drivers, driver downloads for backups Castlewood. HelpDrivers offers drivers that support both currently shipping and obsolete backups Castlewood, which are only available from this site. To find a driver, utilities, manual, firmaware and BIOS for your.
• Castlewood also offers a 5.7-Gbyte internal drive option, minus the flexibility of the additional interfaces. Castlewood's 2.2GB cartridge costs $60.00, according to a spokesperson.
• The question I asked was if my Mac Mini with OS 10.6.5 is capable of reading an ORB disk using the ORB SCSI external disk drive with the SCSI to USB (Castlewood ORB USB) Smart Cable. I gather from his reply that 'Mike the MacMedic' does not have any experience using the ORB disk drive setup with a Mac computer using OS 10.

Castlewood Systems' groundbreaking SCSI ORB drive (see my review) has been plagued with many software problems; most of these revolve around the Prosoft driver that Castlewood supplies with the ORB. For a while, the 1.2.6 version of the Prosoft driver appeared to.

Two gigabyte removable storage with 'hard drive' speed for $199? And only $30 per 2 gig cartridge? Sounds too good to be true? Check out the results of my speed tests:

(Note the speed difference below usingthree different SCSI controllers on the Orb.)

Here's an interesting test. I burned a CD with a bunch of files. Then I dropped the same folders on the Orb drive. Obviously, CD-ROM's make more reliable backup media but they are limited to 650MB. The Orb presents an interesting alternative for backing up a big chuck of data in a big hurry.

For reliability, it's hard to beat a CD-ROM burner but the Orb is an interesting alternative for quick backup or transfer of data by the gigabyte.

READER QUESTIONS & COMMENTS

• QUESTION: 'How about the 2 gig Jaz drive?'
  ANSWER: I didn't have a 2 gig Jaz to test, although I would be happy to test one when if Iomega sends me one. They claim an average sustained transfer rate of 7.4MB/sec. I don't know how they came up with that figure but I bet it includes the use of their recommended optional Ultra SCSI controller. Even if it was equal in speed to the Orb, it costs more ($450 with controller vs $200) and the cartridges cost a lot more ($125 vs $30). And read these links about unreliable Jaz cartridges and unimpressive speed.
• QUESTION: 'Do you plan to keep the Orb? Do you recommend it?'
  ANSWER: I've decided to keep it. It saved my bacon when my wife's PowerBook refused to boot. I booted from my 8.6 CD but was able to run Norton from the Orb. Even after fixing the directory, things were degrading fast, with corrupted files and all. I was able to quickly back up over 1 gig of critical project data to the Orb before the internal hard drive became completely compromised. I've also used the Orb as a 'staging area' for a special collection of applications and documents before burning on a CD-ROM, thereby not disturbing the organization of my regular hard drive.
• COMMENT: Orb scsi manual says the following:
  'CAUTION! For best data integrity, DO NOT connect your ORB SCSI Drive on the same SCSI chain as scanners, printers or devices other than hard drives, CD-ROMs and DVD-ROMs.'

  Test Configurations & Procedures

Now don't go saying it's unfair to test on different computers. Even when running the same drive on a 266MHz vs 466MHz Beige G3, there was less than a 10% difference in MacBench and no significant difference in the HDT test. The big difference is seen by changing the type of SCSI controller.

• All drives were reformatted before the tests were run.
• MacBench 5.0 attempts to simulate a mix of real world disk operations. The disk cache was set to 512K instead of the default setting to minimize effects of caching.
• FWB's Hard Disk Tookit has an excellent Bench Test module that can give accurate information on Sustained Read/Write, Random Read/Write, Transactions/Second, etc. (There's a special price of $35.95 if you go to the Special Order page and inter '6sum99' in the discount code field.)

...Interex for the use of the CarrierZIF G3/400

...MacGurus for the use of the Initio Miles Bluenote Fast SCSI-2 Card

...Nicad for the use of the Grappler 906 SCSI Card & Yosemite G3/450

...Blaine & Ken at STARBULLETIN.COM for use of their Jaz drive & G3/300 MT

...David Tasaka of Lyte-On for the use of his Beige G3 DT with the FireBall 4 gig IDE

A big NO THANK YOU to...

Castlewood Orb Drivers For Macbook Pro

...Castlewood who offered a 18 months of excuses instead of an evaluation unit. I had to buy an Orb drive to get the test results. I purchased it from Cyberian Outpost since they shipped it free and offer full refund within 30 days. But I'm not sending it back. I'm hooked.

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© 1999 Rob Art Morgan,editor of BARE FEATS
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