Cool new toy

My new C'T arrived this week with an interesting review of the Orb, a removable MR medium which boasts 2.2 Gig per $29 cartridge, and should cost around $200. While that does make it more expensive than writable CD-Roms in bulk (400 for 338 on Pricewatch today) by a factor of 10, it would make a pretty neat backup-device, or linux-hacking-disk. Indeed with a 10-12 millisecond seek rate, burst transfer rates of 20Mb/s and 12.2Mb/s sustained, it's in the hard-disk league. S: Oops... repeat. Sorry.