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Article #23463What is better tape or megafloppies for backup?
From: Marty Lee
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 1988 16:03
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 1988 16:03
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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)
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