Talk:Castlewood Orb Drive

message: Need complete rewrite. This entry has no flow.  It's just a series of short sentences and tech specs. How about some history of the product?  Why did it fail? --72.202.150.92 05:52, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Rewrite

message: A spew of tech specs are meaningless, IMHO. I'd like to hear more of a historical context of why this product was introduced and why it failed.  Personally, I seem to remember it being launched after the Jaz drive already was on the decline, so why was it released? --70.167.58.6 (talk) 23:18, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  More context needed. 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: I could write some sentences about Cast. Orbs, but it would be based on old rememberings, witch wouldn't fit Wikipedia rules about sourcing. Around 2001 I had downloaded a promotional video on Castlewood Website, using YOU'RE SIMPLY THE BEST as song while Orbs was said to be used on AV editing tasks on computers, showing that it was the main use case promoted by the brand, following what Syquest apparently did. I don't know if I still have it somewhere on a readable disk. Perhaps that people like "the 8-bit guy" have some things?
About the lack of success: in my own experience, the first problem was, in france, that the product was boycotted by medias. In 1998 I was desperately searching for a replacement for floppy disks offering characteristics like Orb was offering... but I never read any review of the product in any computer magazine during all product short life. Not even a mention(perhaps only one in an Apple-related one, at a time when the product was dead already!). So, how people would have any idea about buying one? As you may guess after what I wrote, LS-120 and Iomega Zip didn't answer my needs, Jaz was too expensive and revealed to have bad reputation regarding reliability, among others problems. EZdrive was already dead if I remember well (and MOs, that are finally the ones I'm still using more than 20 years after my first bought of an Orb, was almost never mentioned in computer press neither, but that's another story). I finally discovered Orb around 2001, I don't remember exactly how, probably somewhere on some Apple-related Website or mailing list. But then, only half of the path was made, because finding a shop selling them was a nightmare. Even Castlewood wasn't able to give me an actualized list of revendors. I finally found only one doing it in france(inMac in Paris), probably thanks to an advertisement in an Apple-related magazine, somewhere near the end of 2001. I then wrote a review on my personal Website(in french of course), now disappeared but an old snapshot is findable via archive.org, sadly without pictures(but an older one has got some of them), in the style of the "linux journal" one linked in the WP article, but far more complete. But since I'm not a journalist, searcher(at least officially) or something like this, it can't be used for WP anyway...
--80.67.176.85 (talk) 00:55, 21 November 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  More about Orbs history