What is a Magneto-Optical Drive ?

What is a Magneto-Optical Drive? Removable Rewritable Disks
Magneto-Optical
     Drives/cartridges - MO drives store data on removable, rewritable disc cartridges, each with a capacity of 640 MB (soon to be 2.6 Gb). When filled, you swap in another cartridge. Thus, instead of buying a new hard drive (at $100), you buy another cartridge ($30). Get LIM/DOW (Light Intensity Modulation/Direct Overwrite) disks/drive, which re-writes in one pass, resulting in 100% increase in write speed. Contrast with zip drives which store only 100-230 Mb.

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What is a Magneto-Optical Drive? Removable Rewritable Disks