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

To: the Druid who wrote (48971)	2/27/1998 10:01:00 AM
From: Vaughn	Respond to of 58324

I suspect you are right about HDD being the choice of many users for back up on desk top systems. I currently have 6.4 and 3.1GB hard drives and use Partition Magic for all my back up purposes. With HDD being less that a nickle a MB, it is a very attractive solution. The biggest problem with using this approach for back ups is that it is not as simple to set up as some of the plug and play solutions. Once the HDD is installed and partitions are configured optimally, I can take a complete HDD failure and be back up in about 10-15 minutes. It is also extremely fast to do back ups. Any time I'm going to change any HW configurations or add/update SW, I take about five minutes to do a complete back up and never worry about the all the ugly stuff that can happen. By the way, if you use compression for the back up (hidden) partitions, the price/MB gets down to less than $.03. If anyone tries this approach, let me restate that it is very important to locate the partitions correctly so that your drive addresses work if your primary HDD fails.