Orb Drive

[1] Shortly after the Orb Drive was released, SyQuest brought a lawsuit against Castlewood.

[citation needed] Castlewood filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy and ceased operation in 2004.

The external version was available with parallel, SCSI, USB, or FireWire interfaces.

This removable-disk drive was quiet in operation and incorporated several notable features: Orb disks were made in Malaysia and Thailand and formatted for Macintosh or IBM compatible computers.

During the Orb drive's general period of relevance, two different SCSI/USB adapter configurations were provided by Castlewood: The 5.7 GB drive could also read the 2.2 GB cartridges.