This Story Posted:
March 10th

 
 

[12:45 PM]
Castlewood Shipping The ORB
Castlewood sent us word that they are (finally) shipping the ORB. The ORB is their long awaited 2.2 GB removable media storage device. ORB's biggest claim to fame is that the discs are priced at only US$29.95 making it one of the least expensive removable storage devices on the market. The ORB is priced at US$199.95.

Although Castlewood is shipping the units, we called MacMall who said they would not receive their first shipments until the 15th or 16th of this month (they are taking pre-orders). More interesting is that individual discs are not expected to arrive until the beginning of April, at least at MacMall.

The Mac Observer Spin: The removable storage market has been a strange bird for all participants. Pioneer SyQuest recently went under, and former golden-child Iomega has been plagued with difficulties despite the overwhelming success of the Zip drive. Other options such as Magneto-Optical have still to get much market share acceptance. If Castlewood has really delivered on the promise of ORB, then they will have a huge success on their hands.

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