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To: Reseller who wrote (2756)	10/28/1998 11:53:00 AM
From: Gottfried	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10072

Reseller, good point: >>a hard drive isn't secure enough.<< Dangers are: PC might get stolen with the backup HD in it. Natural disaster or fire might destroy the whole PC. G.

To: Reseller who wrote (2756)	10/28/1998 12:37:00 PM
From: Alan Rosen	Respond to of 10072

Reseller, You allude to a point that is periodically discussed here, the reliability of mechanical devices. All mechanical devices will fail eventually, it may take a minute or hundreds of years, but sooner or later it will happen. Both hard and removable drives are vulnerable. As it has been pointed out, without a removable storage media the failure can be catastrophic. As far as Iomega is concerned the question becomes as issue of life of product before a failure is encountered and quality of manufacture. I do not recall anyone producing documented or verifiable evidence in the past 6 mos. that Iomega's products are any less reliable than other comparable mechanical devices. archcc