Date: Wed, 5 Apr 1995 09:20:27 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD hackers) Subject: Re: Removeable media support Message-ID: <199504050720.JAA04921@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <v01520b0daba73cbfed0f@[192.245.33.12]> from "Mark J. Taylor" at Apr 4, 95 01:23:37 pm
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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. ;-)
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