Hi Paul,
Of course it must be nice to have all your files in one place but there
are at least two probs. that I can see,
 PE> A 1 gig SCSI drive (Seagate ST11200N)
 PE> costs around $1600 now, giving a cost
That price in one lump isn't what I have in spare cash(if there is such
a thing a spare cash).
The risk of loosing the whole lot due to a disk crash (I've heard
horrendus stories about HD failures). You must use a lot of disks for
backing up?
 PE> of $1.60/meg.  That is the justification
 PE> I use to never have to use floppies
 PE> again, as my el-cheapo 1.4 meg floppies
 PE> cost $18 for 14 meg, a cost of about
 PE> $1.30/meg.  BFN.
You're not going to the right places for elcheapo disks if $18 is what
y are forking out!  Besides the FD4000 can use 2meg. unformatted disks
as 1.6 meg. formatted which on your prices would be $18 for 16 meg!
I can even cheat and format them as if they were ED disks and get 3.2
meg. which would make the cost $18 for 32 meg!!  Although the warning
is that at this format they may be unreliable.  So to get back to my
original statement
 PE>  BD> about a year ago).  Anyway this
 PE>  BD> drive seems to be the closest thing to
 PE>  BD> being a hard drive without actually
 PE>  BD> being one.  Unlike a Ramlink extra
 PE>  BD> megs only cost a few dollars a meg.
That's my excuse and I'm stuck with it.
Cheers and Happy new year.
Reece (aka Ben Dewberry)
 
 
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