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with the JAZZ and the ZIP and the LS-120
and SYQUEST out, what remains is just the CD-R/W.
is this the best external storage solution?
QUESTION:with the JAZZ and the ZIP and the LS-120
and SYQUEST out, what remains is just the CD-R/W.
is this the best external storage solution? how really
reliable are CD-Rs and CD-RWs?
havent heard much of magneto-optical or shark lately either.
seems Iomega has developed a 750mb zip drive, any thoughts on it?
are there external harddrives?
hopefully this gadget connects to the back of the PC
as a printer or a ZIP drive, has a min 10gb storage cap.
or do you use disks on them as on a ZIP/JAZZ?
also, how good is a tape drive for back-up purposes?
ANSWER: If your requirement is 10GB minimum, you can forget ZIP because the
highest capacity of those drives is 750MB. JAZ is also less than 10GB.
LS-120 is only 120MB. CD-R/RW are only 650MB -- RW is not reliable for
backups and R for backups is wasteful.
Tape drives are OK if you need to keep a lot of historical backups
around. However, you might otherwise be better off with an external hard
drive. These are the only two options that will give you your min. 10GB
capacity.
Castlewood systems has a 3.5" 5.7GB removable drive:
http://www.castlewood.com/57_eide.htm
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