Sharky Extreme heeft een review van de 2,2Gb dikke Castlewood Orb drive gepost. De prijs van Orb valt mee: de EIDE drive kost ca. $150 en voor de schijven wordt een prijs van rond de 30 dollar verwacht (en in capaciteit vergelijkbare Jaz drive kost tweemaal zo veel). Hier een stukje over de performance:
The performance of the ORB drive still is rather low compared to a modern hard drive. In fact, the drive is rather similar in speed levels to the 1 - 2 gigabyte drives we all used to use in the mid 90s. While these numbers certainly don't portray the ORB drive in an exceptional light, we never experienced unsatisfactory performance that made us grind our teeth while waiting for a job to finish on the ORB. Both MPEG-1 and AVI movie files played back flawlessly without any noticeable frame dropping from the ORB, and we witnessed transfer rates close to 8M/sec - slightly lower than the advertised 12M/sec, but still extremely fast in the removable media realm. .
