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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

Sorry. A Zip drive just doesn't hold enough these days... especially if you are backing up a multi-gig hard drive. And the CD-R's take 'forever' to back up only a fraction of a gig. That's why I've been so excited about the promise of the Castlewood ORB drive.

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:

Apple.comMac OS XDrivers but it was the same. Then I found there were two drivers in the Drivers list. I used the second driver from the top and it goes to another place in the Adaptec site. REMOVE the 2906 driver from the folder, you may have to do it from OS 9, so the install works.

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

• 2.1 Installing ORB Drive 2.2 ORB Tools 2.3 Un-partitioned hard drives 2.4 Attach/Detach ORB 2.5 SuperBackup utility 2.6 Driver command line options 2.7 Printing documents from a parallel port based drive to the printer also connected to the same parallel port 2.8 Avoiding IRQ conflicts 2.9 Uninstalling ORB Drive 3.
• 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. Castlewood ORB USB Drive Free Driver Download (Official) Castlewood Drivers USB Drivers.
• 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.

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.

Conclusion: Although not quite as fast as a typical sealed hard drive, the Orb is faster than any other removable, recordable medium I've tested. (See comment below about Jaz 2 gig.)

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

DRIVES	interface	size	Host Computer
Quantum Fireball SE	IDE ATA/33 Ultra	4 gigabytes	Beige G3/466
Seagate Hawk	Internal Fast Narrow SCSI	4 gigabytes	Power Mac 7500 G3/400
Castlewood Orb 'Blue'	Miles Bluenote Fast SCSI-2 (20MB/sec max)	2 gigabytes	Power Mac 7500 G3/400
Castlewood Orb 'Orange'	Grappler 906 PCI SCSI-2 (10MB/sec max)	2 gigabytes	Blue & White G3/450
Castlewood Orb 'Beige'	External SCSI-1 (5MB/sec max)	2 gigabytes	Power Mac 7500 G3/400
Iomega Jaz	External Narrow SCSI	1 gigabyte	Beige G3/300
Iomega Zip	External Narrow SCSI	100 megabytes	Power Mac 7500 G3/400

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.)

A big MAHALO to...

...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 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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