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To: Jock Hutchinson who wrote (9580)	5/2/1999 12:36:00 PM
From: Rocky Reid	Respond to of 10072

>> Obviously with 28 disks, I have a lot of information stored. It includes daily stock transactions that are stored in the context of other market data at the time of the trade--so a lot of very important material--and that is why this is so very discouraging. << Not to beat the point to death, but my advice to you is to forget storing archiving important info on rotating magnetic disks altogether. Optical devices like CD-RW are clearly the way to go IMO. I love CD-R/W, and have 2 burners myself. At work, we have 4. But another possibilty for your needs could be the new OnStream tape drive, which stores 15Gigs uncompressed (30 compressed) at a very fast rate (for tape) all in the background as you work. OnStream tape drives are faster than Zip drives. Very slick indeed. All for $299. In fact, Onstream claims you can view multimedia files directly from Onstream tapes. Moer info is at onstream.com

To: Jock Hutchinson who wrote (9580)	5/2/1999 3:07:00 PM
From: Drapeau	Respond to of 10072

With 72 years of investing experience (as outlined in your personal profile) you must have accumulated a huge amount of data. I suppose your first archiving media was papyrus. Few weeks ago, Rocky would have suggested you to buy a Sony HiFD. If you had buy all products Rocky is the promotor, you will already have Syquest, Imation and ORB drives. I think it is better for you to have the same product as more than 25 millions of other users. 3.5 inch diskettes exists since near 20 years and Zip disks will last for the rest of your life (if you are really 87 years old). Regards! -- Drapeau