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To: Kashish King who wrote (48906)	2/26/1998 3:49:00 PM
From: Eve Edelson	of 58324

Reliability; okay here No problems with zip reliability here, in either office or lab. As for backup, choice of media depends on what you're backing up. We find it handy to put results of different experimental runs on different zip disks. Obviously they're not for backing up some huge Unix box, tape is much cheaper, tho' a drag to use. Conversely, I don't need a "multi-gigabyte, multitrack tape" to back up 100MB of images which I want kept separate from run to run. Neither choice is necessarily a criticism of the other; it all depends on your situation. All this reminds me that I've had faulty tapes and hard drives. We had an IBM workstation which lost first one internal HD, than another, then the CD-ROM went, then the graphics board...sigh... The cost of storing "anything of material value" on zips is not prohibitive - if it were we couldn't afford them, we're just poor academics. Spare change for research?

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