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Same thing here; however JAZ-Drive. The thingy is expensive, media too, and utterly unreliable.
J.W.E. Roberts
Robert Duplain wrote:
> You're very couragous to rely on zip drives to secure you data.
>
> To my experience Omega Zip Drive is UNreliable. Some month ago mine started "clicking" and scraped disks where I had saved valuable data. Nobody knew why this common phenomena occured. Iomega just ignored the problem (look at their stock value).
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> I resolved the enigma by putting the Zip Drive in the oven at 450 deg. for 1 hour. It does not work anymore by I know why.
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> Believe me, you better get a second hard drive and backup on it, it is much cheaper per Meg, faster and much more reliable.
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> Robert
>
> -----Message d'origine-----
> De: Chris Henderson [SMTP:cjhenderson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Date: 4 juin, 1998 02:46
> À: metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Objet: Re: Power-cut
>
> I agree with your backup method:
>
> I use Explorer weekly to copy equis stock files & portfolios to a Zip drive.
> I include the MS explorer and formula files every now & then. I changed
> computers recently and installed MStock onto the new drive, then copied the
> Zip drive files (not compressed or 'Zip backups') into the fresh Equis
> directory. Whn I started MS on the new computer everything was there
> exactly as on the old one.
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