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

To: Kashish King who wrote (45500)	1/25/1998 4:55:00 AM
From: Marshall	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 58324

With my apologies to the IOM thread I have to agree with you in part. First off - the Zip Drive is a very handy piece of equipment for many consumers. Our local Kinko's now has Zip Drives thus when I need to use some of their resources that I don't posess it's a lot better taking a Zip disk as opposed to a pile of reformatted AOL promotional floppies. Now as to where you're right - I can't think of an IS department anywhere that would rely on the Zip drives for backup purposes. I'd have to say that tapes or CDR-ROMs would be preferable due to reliability & performance issues but with hard drives under $200 for 5 GB a true RAID 3 setup would be my choice as the primary backup since, in effect, no "backups" are required. For reference: pacificexp.com As time passes older data can easily be archived to other media.

To: Kashish King who wrote (45500)	1/25/1998 11:40:00 AM
From: Cogito	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 58324

>>As far as PCs are concerned, multimedia content from raster graphics to audio files do require a lot of bandwidth, however, you are working locally off of your hard-disk from an archive located on a server. If you aren't using a networked version control system then you are not managing your assets correctly and if you don't have automatically scheduled backups you are simply asking for a disaster. No self-respecting company should be relying on individual backup using CLICK...CLICK...CLICK... (a.k.a. Zip) drives and no self-respecting IS manager would consider it.<< Rod - Eve did not say that the Zips were used for backup. Your statements show that you make a whole lot of assumptions about the environment in which she is working, and then declare that her company is "not managing its assets correctly" because they don't do things a particular way. As a networking professional for many years, I can tell you that there are many self-respecting companies which are too small even to have an IS manager. Not every company needs a networked version control system, either. Companies network needs depend, in large part, upon what those companies do. No solution works for everyone. I agree with you completely that modern computing is completely possible without Zip drives. They may never become a standard feature on all computers. But that doesn't mean no one has any use for them, even in networked environments. - Allen