Re: long-term storage

Ivan T. Shaw (ishaw@po-box.mcgill.ca)
Thu, 13 Mar 1997 16:50:52 -0500

At 12:14 AM 3/13/97 -0500, you wrote:
>I debated which system to use, and decided on the ZIP drive. Each disk
>holds 100 Mb, and the drives themselves are inexpensive enough to be
>an attractive addition to any computer. Jazz drives would also be good,
>but the larger size is worrysome, as is the size of the CD-R method. We
>used to use a Worm optical (600 Mb per side) . . . imagine losing that
>much data on a corrupted disk -- it happens. 100 meg at a time seems
>more managable.

This is a good argument for the ZIPdrive. However, for long-term storage, I
have a problem with using magnetic media; your files can get wiped by stray
fields.

I think that a hierarchical storage system may be the better way to go; ZIP
(or EZ-Flyer for those people who prefer SyQuest hardware) for short-term,
CDR for long-term and WORM for those dead files.

- ivan

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