martyl@bucket.UUCP (Marty Lee) (01/10/88)
As a new owner of a MacII with a 40 Meg hard disk I find it a real drag to do a full back up onto 800K floppies, you need 50 of the little suckers and about an over an hour of time. As I was flipping though the last couple of MacWorlds there seem to be four (4) better alternatives: 1) MegaFloppies like the Jasmine unit for $999. Each floppy can hold 10 Megs. The floppies are $40 each. 2) IOMEGA Bernouli Box Dual 20Meg box, about $2000. 3) Tape drive...don't know how much a fair price is and if the speed or file structure is the type you can recover or backup a single file. 4) Another 40 Meg hard disk, about $1000. My first thought was to use option 4. Then option 1 was bought to my attention. I tend to favor #1 because the media is removable and it would be nice for the lesser used files. I've been told that the MegaFloppies been having trouble with reliability because the read/write head rides on the media unlike #2 or standard hard disks. My question: should I be worried about the MegaFloppies? Any better solutions? tektronix!reed!omen!bucket!martyl (Marty Lee)
graefe@tramp.Colorado.EDU (William S. Graefe) (01/11/88)
In article <668@bucket.UUCP> martyl@bucket.UUCP (Marty Lee) writes:
=be nice for the lesser used files. I've been told that the MegaFloppies
=been having trouble with reliability because the read/write head rides
=on the media unlike #2 or standard hard disks.
Macworld, Sept '87: "Data on the 10MB floppies last ten times longer than
on Bernoulli-technology cartridges." So what's the story? I thought the
Bernoulli's were better for the top reasons. Anybody have cold, hard facts?
=My question: should I be worried about the MegaFloppies? Any better
=solutions?
Tape backup?!?!? The process has been around for too long! I agree, single
file recovery would be difficult without major backups of good software.
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