From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 26 8:58:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from q.closedsrc.org (ip233.gte15.rb1.bel.nwlink.com [209.20.244.233]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9289E37B401 for ; Tue, 26 Jun 2001 08:58:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lplist@closedsrc.org) Received: by q.closedsrc.org (Postfix, from userid 1003) id E662A55407; Tue, 26 Jun 2001 08:44:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by q.closedsrc.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6A2451610; Tue, 26 Jun 2001 08:44:08 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 08:44:08 -0700 (PDT) From: Linh Pham To: Ryan Masse Cc: j mckitrick , FreeBSD-Questions Subject: Re: which is faster zip drive under FreeBSD: usb or parallel? In-Reply-To: <006101c0fe58$1345e9e0$3200000a@Intranet> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 2001-06-26, Ryan Masse scribbled: # why not get an external CD-RW? Or an external USB tape drive? Depending on how much data you are planning to backup, an external tape drive or a CD-RW would be faster and probably more reliable than Zip 250 drives (remember... click of death :) -- Linh Pham [lplist@closedsrc.org] // 404b - Brain not found To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message