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On Thu, 8 May 1997, Ken Manheimer wrote: > Bob Angell wrote: > > Benjamin S. Kim wrote: > > > [...] > > > 3. What kind of backup devices are people using with 560's? I'm > > > > Travan-4 are very good! > > Is anyone else thinking about basing their backup strategies on > write-once CD ROM drives? I'm planning on it, but have been holding > out for the price of 4x write CD-R (record once) cd drives to come > down enough. > > Though 650 MB isn't huge - nowhere near travan TR-4 4GB - the media is > so convenient! I envision copying the image of the installed OS on At work, we've got both DAT drives and CD-Rs, and you're right about the the CDs being more convenient. Another not-so-trivial benefit is the ability to mix your own audio and Photo CDs. Put 70 minutes of your favorite songs on one CD and play that in your car, instead of ejecting and inserting a half dozen different CDs while driving. > Plus the media is *cheap* It's about $5/disk right now, or less than 1 cent/meg. > (I would be doing all this on my desktop PC, but there are external > CD-R drives available that could be hooked up with a SCSI port on a > TP.) What I've heard is that because the CD-R writes in one continuous track (like the old phonograph grooves), the PC *must* be able to pump data to the drive without fail. Don't try to multitask when it's running, and SCSI is best. Also, I don't know if a PCMCIA SCSI port would be up to handling a 4x CD-R (650MB/17min = just over half a MB/sec, and remember your PC needs time to read the data too), and any APM BIOS functions could jeopordize the process. -- John H. Kim kim@mak.com