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Non-Tech : Any info about Iomega (IOM)? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Cogito who wrote (40223)	12/16/1997 11:05:00 PM
From: Joon Song	Respond to of 58324

>>>> >>I haven't heard a good argument against the "backup to a server" idea yet.<< SL - So have you figured out how long it would take to download two gigabytes worth of data over a 33.6 Kbps line following a system crash? Doesn't sound all that convenient to me. - Allen <<<< I came up with 6.9 days. Heaven forbid if you should need to use the phone or expect to receive a call while uploading/downloading. Hopefully they will have some means to restart a upload/download from where you left off each time it gets interrupted. Joon

To: Cogito who wrote (40223)	12/16/1997 11:19:00 PM
From: Thomas L Nielsen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 58324

For security reasons I don't plan on ever storing any sensitive data on a server. For more sensitive systems my computer will not even have a hard drive. All computer operations would be carried out using removables. To accomplish this my basic system will have two removable drives(ZIP if 100 mb is adequate), one for booting and some applications, etc, and the other for copying, data, and other applications. Two removable drives that are compatible with each other simplify several needs and to me is the logical configuration. The removables are removed and safed when not used and another user of the system will have to supply their own boot and data disks. Zip or Jaz seem to be the current logical drives for this type of corporate application Tom