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

To: Marshall who wrote (45508)	1/25/1998 11:34:00 AM
From: Cogito	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 58324

>> 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.<< Marshall - I don't think the poster to whom Rod was responding was saying that his company uses Zips as a backup device. She said only that the twelve computers in her workstation all have Zip drives, and that every new PC has to have one. I see no reason to assume that they are using these for backup. I also note that this sounds like a small workgroup, possibly without a file server of any kind. As for RAID "no backups" backup solutions, like any hardware-redundancy "backup" solution, they only go so far. If a system or data volume becomes logically corrupted, or important files are deleted, then you lose data. - Allen