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hutch@bellman.lanl.gov (John Hutchinson) writes:

>One word of caution however... flopticals are nifty but they are s-l-o-w
>compared to the speed and convenience of a typical hard disk.  I think they
>would be great for backups but not ideal for your primary storage device.
>This is IMHO and others here may voice different opinions, of course.

I'd like to hear those opinions.

I have been looking a tape back-up units, and my feeling is "old technology".

The *ONLY* use for a tape-backup unit is using tapes to backup file.

But a floptical could be used for less-often run programs, or other
files that, while they don't really need to live on my hard-disk,
I wouldn't want them OFF it and stuffed away on a tape somewhere.

My current set-up is an ICD host adaptor, a SCSI drive, and power
supply (I opted against the "wire running from the ST's power-supply
set-up for just this reason: adding more devices) - what do I
need to add - just a floptical drive???

Any help would be ENORMOUSLY appreciated.

Oh, also - whatever I do, it will need to be portable to the Falcon -
I know the ICD adaptor will be pretty obsolete for the Falcon, since
it has SCSI-II built in, but I'd like to avoid buying anything else
that won't transport across.

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TIA,
Warwick
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