May 1996 / BYTE Lab Product Report

16 Drives for Fast Data Backup An Optical V iew	Are you constantly running out of hard drive space? Back up your data with one of the drives tested here. The media is removable, has a long shelf life, and offers low per-megabyte storage costs. - by Chandrika Mysore
5-1/4-Inch Optical Drives BEST OVERALL: Pinnacle Micro Apex 2.6GB HIGH PERFORMANCE: Pinnacle Micro Apex 2.6GB LOW COST: Pinnacle Micro Apex 2.6GB Pinnacle Micro Apex 2.6GB Pinnacle Micro Apex 2.6GB Pinnacle Micro Apex 2.6GB	Magneto-optical ( MO) drives are a durable, transportable medium for backing up and archiving large amounts of data permanently.
Pinnacle's Apex 4.6GB Serves Up a Heaping Platter Near-Hard-Drive Performance	Pinnacle Micro's new Apex 4.6GB drive is a breakthrough in optical-storage technology.
3-1/2-Inch Removable Media The Tale of the Tape Low-Cost and Smaller	The four 3-1/2-inch portable removable drives that we tested are inexpensive alternatives to the more costly 5-1/4-inch units.
How We Tested	We tested the performance of the 16 removable-media drives with NSTL's InterMark benc hmarks.
Honorable Mentions Interchangeable Media Tiny LCD Really Delivers Big Replace Your Pocket Protector	Panasonic's PD/CD-ROM LF-1000AB drive wears two hats: It can read and write to a 650-MB rewritable optical disk, and it can also read common quad-speed CD-ROMs--all in the same tray.

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