Description

The Star series of MO drives from Maxoptix allow for support of today's extensive requirements for data intensive applications and will be the platform for tomorrow's higher capacity requirements. The Star series is available in two models, the T6-5200 (5.2GB) and the T5-2600 (2.6 GB). The Star series T6-5200 has the exclusive turbocache system, which greatly improves performance over previous generations. Whether it's high performance, reliability, capacity, or multi-functional capabilities, the new Star series T6-5200 with the exclusive turbocache system, and the T5-2600 are ideal solutions for data intensive applications including document imaging, medical imaging, large data  exchange, archive and backup.

Performance
The drives support an Ultra-SCSI interface to provide for a high data transfer rate of up to 20 MB/s synchronous and 6.8 MB asynchronous. The industry's first MO drive with 8 MB cache, the T6-5200 Star drive is additionally enhanced by turbocache, increasing system performance by 20%.

Reliability
Magneto Optical technology is the world's safest storage method. Maxoptix drives are exceptional in reliability with a Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF) of 200,000 hours and a Mean Insertions Between Failure (MIBF) of 500,000. These types of performances make the drives ideal for jukebox applications. The Maxoptix supplied MO Media is of the highest quality, certified by the company in T6-5200, T5-2600 drives and the complete line of MX jukeboxes. MO Media may be written and erased more than 100,000,000 times. Archival (shelf) life of this media is also exceptional at greater than 30 years without any special storage requirements, such as rigorous temperature and humidity standards.

Capacity
     With the T6-5200 and T5-2600 drives, you get high removable storage capacity with near hard drive speed. Maxoptix drives fully supports all generations of ISO standard media being able to read and write MO, LIMDOW, and CCW media from 600 MB to 5.2 GB capacities. The Maxoptix Star series drives are the only MO drives with full read and write backwards compatibility all the way to 1x media.

Multi-Purpose
The combination of speed and capacity makes these drives suitable for many functions including document imaging, medical imaging, large data exchange, archiving and backup. Each drive also contains a special jukebox interface, enabled enhanced performance for Jukebox operations. The drives are designed to perform in all major operating systems - Windows 95/98 and NT, UNIX, Linux, Netware and Macintosh.

Technicial Specification