From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 8 17:59:02 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA26255 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 8 Jul 1998 17:59:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA26249 for ; Wed, 8 Jul 1998 17:58:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from doconnor@cain.gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.8.8/8.6.9) with ESMTP id KAA20524; Thu, 9 Jul 1998 10:28:08 +0930 (CST) Message-Id: <199807090058.KAA20524@cain.gsoft.com.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Scott Mitchell cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mass storage (~1Gb) solutions? In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 08 Jul 1998 15:19:59 +0100." <19980708151959.D2481@dcs.qmw.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 09 Jul 1998 10:28:08 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Various Syquest and Iomega removable-cartridge drives should fit the bill. > I believe that a few other companies make similar products. You could also > look at CD-R or CD-RW (not quite a gig, but the $/Mb is pretty good!) Hmmm.. do you have any specific experience? (ie say iomega vs syquest) I had a think about CD-R's but they are too unreliable (from a friend of mines experience), ie if you interrupt a write even a but you can throw away the CD :-/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- |Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software | |http://www.gsoft.com.au | |The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to| |choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum | --------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message