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To: Zeuspaul who wrote (2868)	10/12/1998 7:49:00 AM
From: Sean W. Smith	Respond to of 14778

ZP and All, BTW: Here's is what a real backup system looks like. We have 2 of these at work to support our engineering users... storagetek.com I can't find the URL for the Sotrage Tek Optical Disk front end we have for online backup. Just ~ 1 T Byte on MO disk and then it rolls to TAPE. Sean

To: Zeuspaul who wrote (2868)	10/12/1998 4:35:00 PM
From: Clarence Dodge	Respond to of 14778

ZP and all Current Macworld feature article on SCSI removeable storage solutions macworld.zdnet.com Pretty good sumation of alot of the stuff we've been discussing.... Heres a sidebar on near term future devices. The Cartridge Crystal Ball Storage technology continues to follow a familiar evolutionary path: bigger, faster, cheaper. Take the humble floppy drive's latest competitor, for example. Sony's new (and currently Windows PC-only) HiFD drive not only reads and writes to familiar 1.44MB 3.5-inch floppies but also accepts proprietary cartridges that, when formatted, hold a spacious 200MB. The Iomega Jaz 2GB may have new competition as well. Castlewood Systems, headed up by SyQuest founder Syed Iftikar, is trumpeting its upcoming $199 Orb drive, promising that it'll use MR (magneto-resistive) technology to cram 2.16GB on a $30 single-platter 3.5-inch cartridge. Speed claims are impressive, nearly double that of the Iomega Jaz 2GB. Originally scheduled to ship this spring, the Orb is now expected to arrive by the end of this year. Also likely to ship in the immediate future is the SyQuest Quest. Its 5.25-inch cartridges will hold 4.7GB--the same capacity that allows a DVD disc to contain a full-length film or nine-plus hours of CD-quality audio. TeraStor has recently announced the first drives to use its proprietary near field recording technology, a magneto-optical hybrid that allows for extremely high-density discs. The two drives--one due late this year, the other next year--will use 5.25-inch removable cartridges that will hold 10GB and 20GB, respectively, on a single side. And several manufacturers are developing writable DVD drives, but until the plethora of competing DVD standards gets sorted out, we wouldn't call this a practical solution. (See the feature "DVD: Now Playing?" elsewhere in this issue.) Clarence