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

To: Bobo Bear who wrote (3505)	11/24/1999 7:58:00 PM
From: David Colvin	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 5023

Bobo, I can certainly understand your reasoning about CD-RW vs. Zip drives. However, I feel that these products complement each other more often than compete with each other. Some cases in point: 1. My Quicken file is over 4 Mb and I back it up every single day to one of two alternating Zip disks labeled "even" and "odd" for even and odd days. Using my 100 Mb external SCSI Zip drive, the backup takes about 4 seconds. 2. Every once in a while I back up my HUGE Netscape bookmark file to another Zip disk...takes about 1 second. 3. Every so often I back up my Netscape e-mail file and all my Netscape user settings...takes about 5 seconds. Since this is so convenient, (and "regular" 3.5" floppies are too slow and unreliable) I wouldn't even consider backing up to a CD-RW disk....too big of a deal to "fool around" with and too SLOW compared to the speed of my SCSI Zip drive. By the way, I also have a 1 Gb external Jaz drive and back up my entire "C" hard drive partition weekly to the same Jaz disk via Drive Image software from Powerquest. The back up takes 55 minutes. If my hard drive crashes, I can be up and running again within 20 minutes of installing another hard drive. How do I know? It's happened to me! The CD-RW does not have the capacity to perform such a back up and, again, is way too slow! Incidently, I purchased a good number of my 1 Gb Jaz disks from buy.com for $24.95 each plus shipping when buy.com was just starting up.....what a deal that was! This sale only lasted for about two days. Come to think of it, with a large number of high capacity 1 Gb Jaz disks (rewriteable at a much faster rate than CD-RW) I have no reason whatsoever to even own a CD-RW drive....but that's just me, guess I'm stuck with this "old" technology. Dave