Re: [TCLUG:14864] backup device - [was power-eject floppydrives for PCs?]

["Gene Kremer" <GKREMER@ngwmail.des.state.mn.us>]

Currently using a (now two year old) SyJet 1.5G removable drive. SCSI or parallel interface. Seems to work without a hitch, although my experience with it is mostly in Windows land.  The cartridges are a better value than zip drives, although individually expensive.

Gene Kremer      651-296-1718   
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>>> "Eric M. Hopper" <hopper@omnifarious.mn.org> 03/18/00 11:28AM >>>
On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 11:37:05PM -0600, Scott Dier - dieman wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Mar 2000, Eric M. Hopper wrote:
> 
> > 	Out of curiosity, what's so bad about Zip drives?
> 
> click of death.

	I've been reading about this all morning.  Interesting.

	Luckily, my drive is an older, SCSI model, so I don't think I'll
be visited by this problem, but I should probably still make a point of
making backups to a different media.

	I had already resolved to not by iomega again because their
media is too expensive.  I knew this before, but bought from them anyway
because they were the people who jump started the removable mass storage
market, and I felt like I should support them.

	I'll next be getting either an LS-120, or something bigger, if
it exists.

Thanks,
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