Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 12:16:24 -0400 From: dochawk@psu.edu To: "Ryan Masse" <mail@max-info.net> Cc: "j mckitrick" <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org>, "FreeBSD-Questions" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: which is faster zip drive under FreeBSD: usb or parallel? Message-ID: <200106261616.f5QGGOx01716@fac13.ds.psu.edu> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 26 Jun 2001 11:52:59 EDT." <006101c0fe58$1345e9e0$3200000a@Intranet>
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> > Yes, i do get irritated with that. But, for my laptop it seems the only > > practical way to go for backups and archives. It's not too bad. When i > get > > a desktop, if i ever do, i will definitely go with tape and cron. > why not get an external CD-RW? [please put responses *below* and not above . . . ] I"m actually going with extra ide drives for backup on my scsi system. The price of 40G drives is down to about 1.5X the same amount of tapemedia, and then there's the tape drive. I'll have a 3 IDE RAID 5 rather than a tape drive. I'll also have the scsi cd/rw . . . hawk -- Prof. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. /"\ ASCII ribbon campaign dochawk@psu.edu Smeal 178 (814) 375-4700 \ / against HTML mail These opinions will not be those of X and postings Penn State until it pays my retainer. / \ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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