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To: engineer who wrote (32749)	6/20/1999 3:15:00 AM
From: JRH	Respond to of 152472

OT (Sorry thread, last tangent ;) If your realy concerned with use and reliability, then spending $290 rather than $129 is worth it. My kids burn MP3's onto CD's alomst every night. We use the CD rom for digital camera archives, and I do backups (incremental) in 1 disk at night while I sleep. The media costs only $5, rather than the zip cost of $30, so your fist backup makes up the differnce. there is cheap and then there is hidden costs. The CD is actually cheaper in the long run. Agreed, sorta. Both have their perks! I like zips because I can take them to work/school and download with a network connection rather than use my modem! Unfortuntaley, we don't have a community burner at school ;) Keep in mind, though, that the subject (limtex) doesn't even have enough stuff to backup to fill a single Zip. So his TCO can probably be less than $100 (if he shops online), as opposed to the $150+ for a burner. But, as you noted, one can't play Zip drives in the car cd-player on long trips ;o) Justin