Disc Stakka USB powered disc storage system from Imation
Posted on 26/04/05 16:21 by Dan Bell                             
Disc Stakka USB powered disc storage system from Imation

This may be of interest to those of us archiving our photos on optical media, or even those that simply just have a lot of software at home or at our business place. Imation has announced the availability of their new Disc Stakka concept of storage. The device is database driven and can hold 100 optical discs for easy retreival, leaving your workstation free of clutter and saving you from searching a file folder for a particular piece of software. What makes this device nice is the fact that the USB not only sets up the communication, it powers the device as well. Not only that, you can stack five of these puppies together and not need any additional cords. This can make organizing 500 discs a snap. Due to the systems impressive scalability, if you grab some USB power hubs, you can control the storage of up to 50,000 CD's or DVD's with 100 of the carousels from one PC or Mac. The Disc Stakka runs about 150 dollars US and will work on USB 2.0 or 1.0.

Product features:

  • Each unit stores, protects and retrieves up to 100 of your favorite discs, including data CDs, DVDs, music and game discs.
  • The Disc Stakka unit has a fully motorized disc insert and eject that helps protect your valuable discs.
  • The Disc Stakka unit is simple to set up, linking to your computer via a single USB cable for both power and data connectivity.
  • Stack units up to five high to create a tower that holds up to 500 discs without any extra cabling or rebooting your computer.
  • Connect towers using powered USB hubs to control over 100 towers (that's over 50,000 discs) from a single computer.
  • Use the bundled OpdiTracker content management software to capture disc content, automatically recognizing whenever you insert a new data disc into your computer's CD or DVD drive.
  • Search the OpdiTracker software database of stored discs by title, keyword, directory or file name to find and eject any disc within seconds.
  • The intuitive OpdiTracker software is so simple to use you will be storing, managing and protecting discs in no time.

System requirements:

  • Windows® XP, 2000, ME, 98SE or Macintosh® OS X (version 10.1 or higher)
  • Pentium II or G3 processor
  • 32MB RAM minimum (64MB RAM recommended)
  • 200MB free disk space
  • USB 1.1 or USB 2.0 compliant port
  • CD or DVD drive for capturing disc content

I could see this system becoming useful for large movie collections too! If you want to read more about this storage device, visit the Imation website here. They even have a demo so you can see it in action.

Source: Imation

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By mrQQ, Tuesday 26 April 2005 17:00
omg, i like NEED this NOW!
By jdub, Tuesday 26 April 2005 21:06
Needs to be cheaper. Alot cheaper. Think < $40
By sorti, Wednesday 27 April 2005 04:16
sortiCheaper!!!!! Ha before this thing came out it was around $4000 USD to do this. $150 is a steal! You can plug one into your computer then stack 4 more on top all with 1 USB cable. Compare it to: http://www.powerfile.com/portal.aspx?module=products/r200ROM/default.ascx Extended Warranty for the PowerFile costs $600 and the drive costs $3800. All we need is a little open source support and this will be nice to add to a Tivo or PVR for playback of your stacks of DVDs.
By Prototype, Wednesday 27 April 2005 04:58
Too expensive and doesnt even have a CD/DVD-ROM drive built in (now that would be *really* useful).
By Prototype, Wednesday 27 April 2005 05:02
p.s. THG has a brief review of this at :- http://www.tomshardware.com/storage/200504211/index.html
By mrQQ, Wednesday 27 April 2005 08:45
yeah, it's much too expensive for a storage.. Frown
By punistation, Wednesday 27 April 2005 10:00
punistationThis thing is SO old. It's been in Aussie retail stores for what seems like years. Here's the flash demo: http://punistation.fuyucorp.biz/opdicom.exe Kisses XXOOXX Jen
By sorti, Wednesday 27 April 2005 10:48
sortiOk Yuk it's a P.O.S. How could they make something like that without having a way to READ the discs? Thats crazy
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