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From: martyl@bucket.UUCP (Marty Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: What is better tape or megafloppies for backup?
Message-ID: <668@bucket.UUCP>
Date: 9 Jan 88 16:03:50 GMT
Organization: Rick's Home-Grown UNIX; Portland, OR.
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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)