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Technical Details for Sony CWO 1200B


Technical Details for Sony CWO 1200B Removable Media
Sony CWO 1200B 
Description: Model ID CWO-1200B / Sony CWO 1200B - 1 x WORM disk 1.2 GB 2x - storage media / The technology that enables advanced medical imaging also generates huge data files. It doesn't surprise us that lots of those files are stored on Sony Magneto-Optical (MO) disks! MO disks fit the ... more
Sony CWO 1200B ... bill in other industries, too. Telephone billing, for example, where Sony held #1 market share worldwide in 1998, and financial services.

Storing your data used to mean picking between the speed of hard disks, the portability of floppy disks, or the capacity of tape storage. Not any more! Sony engineers have improved MO disk technology so now you can have gigabytes of storage on a convenient removable disk and still have seek times measured in milliseconds! You can even play back MPEG-2 video directly from the drive!

Laser-driven, non-contact read and write means no frictional wear. And the Sony proprietary wide-margin design means variations in laser power are no problem. Imagine: Sony MO media can achieve over 10 million read/write cycles and over one billion read cycles, while still boasting an estimated archival life of 50 years!

Technical Details for Sony CWO 1200B

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General
TypeStorage media - WORM disk
Media Form Factor5.25"
Media Included Qty1
Max. Write Speed2x
Media
Native Capacity1.2 GB
Recording Format512 bytes/sector
Archival Life50 years
Shelf Life50 years
Environmental Parameters
Min Operating Temperature5 °C
Max Operating Temperature55 °C
Humidity Range Operating3 - 85%
Min Storage Temperature-10 °C
Max Storage Temperature55 °C
Humidity Range Storage3 - 90%
 
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