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Non-Tech : Iomega Thread without Iomega -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ken Pomaranski who wrote (9443)	4/27/1999 3:26:00 PM
From: David Colvin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10072

Ken, A better solution is to just back up your 'picture' directory to a ZIP or JAZ disk. I wouldn't trust my data on a CLIK! disk. Iomega tells you to be careful even when writing on the label! Believe it or not I have thought of that. Since the Clik! drive is just another drive in my computer, I just may copy my pictures to Zip disks (with very descriptive directories) rather than to my hard drive. Since I've never had a reliability problem with Zip disks since buying my first parallel port Zip drive in April, 1996 (I now have an external SCSI Zip drive) I just may feel safer with duplicates on Zip disks instead of on my hard drive. For that matter, I've never lost any data on my Jaz disks and may copy to one of them instead. In any event, I intend to have redundant copies of all my pictures stored somewhere because losing data just isn't my cup of tea.....you might say it really pies me off! No more "all nighters" three days in a row for me re-installing software and resurrecting personal files I was "lucky" enough to have copied someplace else. I just won't take chances just to save a few bucks. As far as losing data on the Clik! disks go, I'll just have to see that for myself before I will live in fear of keeping data on them. The thing that got me to invest in Iomega in the first place was using Bernoulli drives on a highly classified "special access" program at McDonnell Douglas in the early 1987 to early 1991 time frame because we couldn't have hard drives in our machines. We even had to lock up our Bernoulli disks in safes at night. Guess what....I filled up fifteen 100 Mb Bernoulli disks (a huge amount of data at the time) and not I nor 200 other people on the project ever lost any data while using Iomega's Bernoulli drives. So far (knock on wood) I've never lost any data from using any** Iomega product. Dave