Mail Archives: opendos/1997/09/26/09:25:52
On Fri, 26 Sep 1997, Joseph Morris wrote:
>
> I had considered that, in fact we have a JAZ drive at Caldera, but it
> is
> not used much. The media is ~90 pounds (!). This meant that I cannot
> afford to buy more disks, so having a mirror of important disks is
> out of the question.
>
> If one of my zip disks failed, I'd lose about 200Mb but I have
> mirrored the important disks.
>
> If I lost a Jaz disk (and I can't afford to mirror those) I'd lose
> about 2Gb of data!
>
> (I compress the files with RAR, good Russian archiver.)
>
> I've been using ZIP disks for almost a year now, and I haven't lost a
> single ZIP disk, although one of our two drives became intermittent, and
> had to be replaced. It always was an odd one..
>
> Also, there are strange Fujifilm disks which boast an extra protective
> layer on top of the data.
>
>
> In keeping with the VCR backup thread, I'd like to point out that I've
> now seen the JPGs of the Arvid units, and they look nothing like the
> Danmere Backer devices. They may be compatible though.
>
The thought of using a VCR as a backup device automatically makes me think
of the good old days of the Tandy and using audio cassettes and all the
problems that arose from them. But I guess until platters get cheaper for
the dollar than disks we'll always be looking for an alternate form. (I
have a 400mb hdd and have 2 200mb hdds which I use in a hot swappable hdd
device)
Craig
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