Message-Id: <199610161453.JAA11087@library.wustl.edu> Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 10:50:23 -0400 From: Paul Shippert <mailto:mbms@MAIL.AMERITEL.NET> Subject: Re: image storage To: Multiple recipients of list IMAGELIB
Greetings-- >For off site storage I'm considering zip drives??? Any expert ideas on this
>? How does this compare to the expense of burning Photo CDs? What are the
>archival implications? I like zip files rather tha CDs in terms of future
>hardware accessibility???
While I don't consider myself an 'expert', my read on off-site and/or archiving such databases is that optical or the newer hybrid magneto-optical formats offer the greatest durability and accessibility. CDs do indeed have a number of drawbacks--among them access and data transfer speeds--but they are durable and drive speeds are rising. I have heard and read many good things about the Iomega Jaz drive. This device is available in both IDE and SCSI interfaces, can be a bootable drive (with a ca. 10 ms. access time, it is as fast as many hard disks, and it also has a high data transfer rate--indeed it is one way to run multiple O/Ss on one computer; just have a disk for Win95, one for Win NT, a disk for O/S2, etc.). My plan for a computer I will be building is to use a Jaz for backup. I'm not real clear on all specifics, but the media is more optical than magnetic, and, at ca. $100/disk for a 1GB (2 compressed) disk, the media price is certainly right. (No, I am not a salesman for Iomega.)
Hope this has been of some help.
Regards
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