From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Apr 5 00:23:02 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id AAA09203 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 5 Apr 1995 00:23:02 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id AAA09117 for ; Wed, 5 Apr 1995 00:22:38 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA04338; Wed, 5 Apr 1995 09:22:26 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.9/8.6.9-s1) with UUCP id JAA03736 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Wed, 5 Apr 1995 09:22:24 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id JAA04921 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Wed, 5 Apr 1995 09:20:28 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199504050720.JAA04921@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Removeable media support To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Wed, 5 Apr 1995 09:20:27 +0200 (MET DST) In-Reply-To: from "Mark J. Taylor" at Apr 4, 95 01:23:37 pm Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 918 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Mark J. Taylor wrote: > > But, MO technology is MUCH MUCH faster than tape, and looks just like > another SCSI hard drive. The IMHO most important thing (that's why i plan to use some disk-type removable media drive in near future): you have a direct access medium. While i still prefer making my dumps with tapes, i would go and backup old mails, news archives etc. to removable disks. I can then run elm, a newsreader, or grep on the archive -- hard to do with a tape drive, impossible to do with a cartridge tape drive. :) Besides MO technology, Iomega's recently announced new drives (i think the call'em ``zipdrives'') come to mind. They provide 100 MB at a reasonable price for the drive (much less than an 128 MB MO drive), and with comparable medium costs. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)