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Non-Tech : The New Iomega '2000' Discussion Group -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Cogito who wrote (851)	6/20/1999 5:03:00 AM
From: Reseller	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 5023

The case for removable storage. Removable storage is something that I've been thinking about lately with one respected associate prompting a review of what it means and where it may be going. One of his revelations was the experience with cable modem and knowing that he already stores pictures on the net contends that mecca is found and storage will be on the net. While others contend that it will go to CD-RWs and still others contending that it will go a DVD version what-ever, when ever, if ever they decide a standard. In the meantime the 1.44 floppy hangs on as if it had a real purpose, could be the only purpose it will have is the claim of backward compatibility for Sony. In any case I've been thinking about this and these are the reasons why I believe removable Storage will be around forever and that's a long time. 1. The biggest reason is privacy. There is no way IMO that we will freely give away our personal records. We as a people jealously guard our privacy and deem personal records as private. Our non personal records, sure, we don't mind having them stored here or there but our tax records, financial records, medical records, business records or records of possessions will not be given to areas not in our possession. 2. Reliability is suspect, any that have had computers for any length of time knows that systems will fail. Any repair center will tell you the most vulnerable part of a system is the hard drive the second greatest failing part is the operating system. Back-up, back-up, back-up is the only true measure of safety that can be had and removable media is the only way to truly protect yourself. 3. Has anyone figured what it would take if everyone in this world decided to use the net for storage of the tens of gigabytes of data, pictures, and programs that they have ? I mean who's going to store this data ? Just how many hard drive servers are going to be needed ? At the moment my ISP gives me 5 megs of storage that's nothing I want 20 gigabytes to start, multiply that by all that are going to have computers and I'm here to say it isn't going to happen ( never mind paying for it ) in a long long time if ever. 4. Back to reliability, So lets say everyone else gets their 20 gigs on the net. Who's backing it up ? Do they have a copy off site ? What happens if they crash and their backup doesn't work do they have another backup ? Or am I just out of luck, my tax records etc,etc gone, I don't think so. I can guarantee that my data is and will be safe, they can not. It can be argued as to what kind of removable media is good for what kind of data but going through this process has convinced me that removal media is here to stay. Further I'm leaning to a continued favor of Zip as the most popular media for most of these issues. I have Zip drives in all of my computers with a CD-RW burner in one using my burner for data that I want to archive and my Zip drives for daily back ups and everything else. To my friend, just some rambling thoughts, best regards. Regards Reseller All: my apologies for my aggressive response earlier, I hate getting kicked in the face when I'm down.