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Hello Pascal - 

CA>> I remember reading about magneto-optical years ago but not
CA>> much recently. I guess the cost-per-megabyte isn't
CA>> competitive enough right now but you are correct it seems
CA>> CD burning is not good long-term archival storage. :-\ 

PS> Yeah, the cost-per-mb is not competitive compared to CD
PS> prices, true, and the cost of the drives is another factor.
PS> Most people around here wouldn't spend 300 Euros for a
PS> drive, no matter how realiable the technology and how cheap
PS> the discs are. Lots of people here have ZIP drives. There
PS> the drive is relatively cheap, but the discs are expensive.
PS> A 100M ZIP disc even costs more than a 640M MO disc. 

I iherited a zip drive in a W2K machine. The machine's OS was
unstable and when I looked into the error logs it was the
zipdrive software (like hundreds of error messages). I tried
removing it entirely and that trashed the OS. Finally just
removed all extra zipdrive software and left it in there. I
don't like zipdrives - never did even before this one. Just the
name IOMEGA sends shivers down my spine. 

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